[HPforGrownups] Cho Chang's Name

[Laura Huntley]

No: HPFGUIDX 35948

Someone on this list (I can't remember who), mentioned a site called Harry Potter in Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese.  Anyway, I went there and while exploring it came across this passage (in concern to Cho Chang's name)....

"There has been a lot of speculation about Cho Chang's name, much of it based on the assumption that J.K. Rowling knows what Cho Chang means in Chinese."

My question is:  does this imply that Cho Chang actually *has* some kind of meaning in any sense?  I always assumed it was pretty much a made up name meant to convey to the reader that Cho is Chinese.

hmm..any information on this would be helpful/interesting...

laura


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