[HPforGrownups] Meaning of Cho's name + Ginny/Harry/Cho - a long way to go...

[Antigone Q]

No: HPFGUIDX 60996

Petra Pan <ms_petra_pan at yahoo.com> wrote:

Brooke, in part:
> I recently went online to find out
> what "cho chang" means in the 
> asian languages.  here's what i
> found:  
> 
> "cho-cho" means butterfly in
> Japanese (I have this on authority - 
> my friend from Tokyo told me)  I
> believe that it also means butterfly 
> in Chinese, although they just say
> "cho"
> 


Would you mind sharing where you got 
some of the translations?  I keep 
reading the "butterfly" translation in 
this fandom but the everyday word for 
butterflies in Chinese is not 
pronounced anything like c-h-o.  Can 
you (or anyone really) point me?


The original post said the name was butterfly in Japanese (as opposed to Chinese).  Here is the link to a list of Japanese names with their definitions.  The girls names are near the bottom of the page.  I was surprised too, as everyday Japanese seems to use cho- as a prefix like "very" or define it as "extraordinary."
 
http://home.austin.rr.com/scajapan/LANGUAGE.HTM

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