Cho (卓)
A Taiwanese surname.
卓 Cho
- Zhuyin
- ㄓㄨㄛˊ
- Pinyin
- zhuó
- Wade-Giles
- Cho
- Further spellings of 卓
- Juo, Jhuo, Zhuo
- Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô)
- Toh Toh is the colloquial (白讀) reading, while tok is the character's literary (文讀) reading.
- Hakka (Sixian)
- zog²
- Rank in Taiwan
- 63rd most common surname, roughly 0.19% of the population (2023 Ministry of the Interior figures)
What the character means
It means 'outstanding, eminent' (as in 卓越).
Where the surname comes from
Tradition traces it to King Dao of Chu (楚悼王), whose descendants took 悼 as a surname, which was later written 卓. Hall name (堂號): 西河堂.
Saying it 我姓卓 — wǒ xìng zhuó (ㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄓㄨㄛˊ), "my family name is 卓"
Sources: rank and share, 內政部 全國姓名統計分析 (Ministry of the Interior, National Name Statistics), data as of 2023-06-30. Taiwanese Hokkien readings, 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi), 百家姓 appendix. Hakka, 教育部臺灣客語辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka), 百家姓表, Sixian (四縣腔).