Cho
Encyclopedia
Cho or CHO can refer to several things:
Cho can refer to the following people, real or fictional:
Surname
Fictional characters
Cho can refer to the following people, real or fictional:
People
Given name- Cho Ramaswamy, an actor, columnist, and political commentator in Tamil Nadu, India
- Cho UCho UCho U Kisei, Oza is a professional Go player. He currently ranks 6th in the most titles won by a Japanese professional; his NEC Cup win in 2011 put him past his teacher Rin Kaiho and Norimoto Yoda. Cho is the only player in history to have held five of the top seven major titles...
, a Chinese Go player
Surname
- Cho (Korean name)Cho (Korean name)Cho or Jo is a Korean family name. As of 2000, there were 1,347,730 people by this surname in South Korea of a total population of 45,985,289: more than 2% of the total population...
, a Korean family name - Alina ChoAlina ChoAlina Cho is a general assignment correspondent for CNN's New York bureau.-Background:Alina Cho was born in Vancouver, Washington, to parents who were born in Seoul.She revealed on CNN's American Morning that she was a cheerleader at her high school....
, CNN newsperson - Cho Yong-pilCho Yong-pilCho Yong-pil is a South Korean pop singer born in 1950. Cho is considered to be the most influential figure in Korean pop music and has produced many memorable hits of Korean pop music history, including "Return to Busan Port," "Dear Friend," and "The Lady Outside the Window."-Early years:...
a Korean rock musician - Cho ChikunCho ChikunCho Chihun 25th Honinbo Honorary Meijin is a professional Go player. His total title tally of 71 titles is the most in the history of the Japanese Nihon Ki-in. Cho is the only player to hold the top three titles—Kisei, Meijin, and Honinbo—simultaneously which he did for 3 years in a row...
, a Korean Go player - David Yonggi ChoDavid Yonggi ChoDavid Yonggi Cho is a Korean Christian minister. He is Senior Pastor and founder of the Yoido Full Gospel Church , the world's largest congregation with a membership of 1,000,000...
, a Korean Christian minister - Frank ChoFrank ChoFrank Cho, born Duk Hyun Cho, is a Korean-American comic strip and comic book writer and illustrator, known for his series Liberty Meadows, as well as for books such as Shanna the She-Devil, Mighty Avengers and Hulk for Marvel Comics, and Jungle Girl for Dynamite Entertainment...
, a comic writer - Fujio ChoFujio Chois chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation. In the Japanese system, that puts him in charge of the country's and world's largest automaker. Chō is only the second "outsider" to head Toyota Motor Co. since the members of the founding Toyoda family stepped aside in 1995....
, Toyota executive - Henry ChoHenry ChoHenry Cho is an American stand-up comedian. His work can be heard nationwide several times weekly on XM Radio's Channel 151, Laugh USA and Sirius Radio's Blue Collar Radio channel 103, Pandora Radio's PG Comedy Radio channel.- Biography :Cho, who is of Korean American descent, was raised in...
, an American comedian, actor, writer, rancher - John ChoJohn ChoJohn Yohan Cho is an American actor and musician, best known for his roles in the American Pie films and the Harold & Kumar films . He also starred in the critically acclaimed hit film Better Luck Tomorrow...
, an American actor - Liz Cho, American newscaster
- Margaret ChoMargaret ChoMargaret Cho is an American comedian, fashion designer, actress, author, and recording artist. Cho is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially those pertaining to race and sexuality. She has also directed and appeared in music...
, an American comedian - Raymond Cho (actor), a Hong Kong actor
- Cho HunhyunCho HunhyunCho Hunhyun is a Korean 9-dan professional Go player. Considered one of the greatest players of all-time, Cho reached professional level in Korea in 1962. Since then, Cho has amassed 150 professional titles, more than any player in the world. He once held all nine Korea titles simultaneously in 1980...
, a Korean Go player - Seung-Hui ChoSeung-Hui ChoSeung-Hui Cho was a senior-level undergraduate student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University who killed 32 people and wounded 17 others on April 16, 2007, in the shooting rampage which came to be known as the "Virginia Tech massacre." Cho later committed suicide after law...
, the shooter responsible for the Virginia Tech massacre
Fictional characters
- Amadeus ChoAmadeus ChoAmadeus Cho, also known as Mastermind Excello, is a fictional comic book character appearing in books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Greg Pak and artist Takeshi Miyazawa, the character first appeared in Amazing Fantasy vol. 2 #15...
, also known as the new Mastermind Excello - Bo' Rai Cho, a fictional video game character in Mortal Kombat games
- Cho Chang A girl in the Harry Potter Series
- Cho ChengCho ChengCho Cheng is a fashion designer and entrepreneur who founded his company CHOCHENG in New York.-References:**-External links:*...
, a Chinese American fashion designer - Cho Hakkai, the Japanese name of the character Zhu Bajie from Journey to the West, and various pop-culture characters based on him
- Cho Hakkai (Saiyuki) of the drawn and later animated series Saiyuki
- Kimball ChoKimball ChoKimball Cho is a character portrayed by Tim Kang on the American TV crime drama The Mentalist. Cho is an agent for a fictionalized version of the California Bureau of Investigation ....
, a character in The Mentalist
Acronyms
- Center-hand opponent, a term used in the card game bridge: see Glossary of contract bridge terms#C
- Charlottesville-Albemarle AirportCharlottesville-Albemarle AirportCharlottesville-Albemarle Airport is a public airport located 8 miles north of Charlottesville, in Albemarle County, Virginia, USA that has operated commercial flights since 1955. The airport serves the Charlottesville/Albemarle region and surrounding counties with 46 daily non-stop flights to...
- Chinese hamster ovary cellChinese Hamster Ovary cellChinese hamster ovary cells are a cell line derived from the ovary of the Chinese hamster. They are often used in biological and medical research and commercially in the production of therapeutic proteins. They were introduced in the 1960s and grow as a cultured monolayer...
- The chemical symbol for an aldehydeAldehydeAn aldehyde is an organic compound containing a formyl group. This functional group, with the structure R-CHO, consists of a carbonyl center bonded to hydrogen and an R group....
- The ISO 639 code for the Choctaw languageChoctaw languageThe Choctaw language, traditionally spoken by the Native American Choctaw people of the southeastern United States, is a member of the Muskogean family...
- CHO is a mnemonic used to teach trigonometryTrigonometryTrigonometry is a branch of mathematics that studies triangles and the relationships between their sides and the angles between these sides. Trigonometry defines the trigonometric functions, which describe those relationships and have applicability to cyclical phenomena, such as waves...
, showing that cosecant is the ratio of hypotenuse over opposite
Other
- CarbohydrateCarbohydrateA carbohydrate is an organic compound with the empirical formula ; that is, consists only of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, with a hydrogen:oxygen atom ratio of 2:1 . However, there are exceptions to this. One common example would be deoxyribose, a component of DNA, which has the empirical...
, referencing the three constituent elements, carbon (C), Hydrogen (H) and Oxygen (O) - An ancient Japanese measurement approximately equal to 109.1 metres: see Japanese units of measurementJapanese units of measurement' is the traditional Japanese system of measurement. The name shakkanhō originates from the name of two of the units, the shaku, a unit of length, and the kan, a mass measurement.The system is Chinese in origin...
- Nokia's internal codename for the Nokia 6681 mobile phone
- CubohemioctahedronCubohemioctahedronIn geometry, the cubohemioctahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U15. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral.A nonconvex polyhedron has intersecting faces which do not represent new edges or faces...