Cho's name

[stormbringer43]

No: HPFGUIDX 69722

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Petra Pan <ms_petra_pan at y...> 
wrote:
> Yours truly:
> > Though it is true that Cho COULD be 
> > the Japanese name meaning butterfly, 
> > it is far from conclusive that it IS.  
> > There's no reason to eliminate the 
> > possibility that Cho's got a Japanese 
> > first name...but...isn't it just as 
> > likely if not more so that it matches 
> > the last name in being of Chinese 
> > origin?
> 

A better explanation than a Japanese first name and Chinese last name 
is that Cho Chang is of Korean ancestry.  Cho means "beautiful" in 
Korean, and Chang is a Korean surname.  Not one of the most common 
surnames, but it was the last name of my first Korean Taekwondo 
master, Soon Ho Chang.  (I believe the Korean "Chang" is 
pronounced "chung," but Jim Dale wouldn't know that.) 


Stormbringer43