Cho

Cho or CHO may refer to:

People

 * Chief Happiness Officer
 * Chief Heat Officer

Surnames

 * Cho (Korean surname), one romanization of the common Korean surname 조
 * Zhuo (卓), romanized Cho in Wade–Giles, Chinese surname
 * Cho, a Minnan romanization of the Chinese surname Cao (曹)
 * Chō, the romaji for the uncommon Japanese surname derived from the Chinese Zhang ( Kanji 張)
 * Cho U (born 1980), Taiwanese go player who romanizes his name in the Japanese fashion
 * Chō (born 1957), Japanese actor and voice actor
 * Fujio Cho (born 1937), Japanese chairman
 * Isamu Chō (1895-1945), Japanese lieutenant general

Characters

 * Cho Hakkai, the Japanese name for Zhū Bājiè or "Pigsy", a character in the 16th-century Chinese novel, Journey to the West, by Wu Cheng'en
 * Cho Hakkai (Saiyuki), the same character in the manga and anime series Saiyuki, based on the novel

Given name

 * Cho Ramaswamy (1934-2016), Indian actor and writer
 * Cho, a Burmese given name meaning "sweet" commonly used at the start of a female name and at the end for male names
 * Rich Cho (born 1965), American basketball executive
 * Ba Cho (1893–1947), Burmese newspaper publisher and politician

Characters

 * Cho Chang, a fictional character from the Harry Potter series

Nicknames and stagenames

 * Yūichi Nagashima, a Japanese voice actor who goes by the stage name Chō
 * Callum Hudson-Odoi, abbreviated to CHO, an English professional footballer

Entertainment

 * Center-hand opponent, a term used in the card game bridge: see Glossary of contract bridge terms
 * Cho (rapper) (born 1993), Dutch rapper
 * "Chō" (Shizuka Kudo song), 1996
 * Chō (Tsuki Amano song)

Science and mathematics

 * Chinese hamster ovary cell (CHO cell)
 * CHO, a mnemonic used to teach trigonometry, showing that the cosecant of an angle in a triangle is the ratio of the length of the hypotenuse over the length opposite side
 * cubohemioctahedron, in geometry, is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron
 * -CHO, the chemical symbol for an aldehyde
 * Carbohydrate, referencing the three constituent elements, carbon (C), Hydrogen (H) and Oxygen (O)

Technology

 * Chō, an ancient Japanese unit of length approximately equal to 109.1 meters or 357'11"
 * Chō, also used as a unit of area in Japan approximately 2.449 acres or 0.9917 hectares
 * Nokia's internal codename for the 6681 mobile phone

Codes

 * CHO, the IATA code for Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport in the commonwealth of Virginia, US
 * cho, the ISO 639-2 and -3 code for the Choctaw language as spoken in the US
 * CHO, the National Rail code for Cholsey railway station in the county of Oxfordshire, UK