Meaning of Cho's name

[Petra Pan]

No: HPFGUIDX 61049

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"

Yours truly:
> 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?

Antigone Q:
> 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

Thanks for the link but as Brooke had cited 
her friend in Tokyo as confirmation that 
"cho-cho" means butterfly in Japanese, this 
translation is not really the part that has 
no reference source.

That is to say I am still hoping that those 
who have specifically said in the past on 
various occasions that Cho means butterfly 
in Chinese could point me.  After all, Brooke 
is hardly the first or the only to indicate 
that Cho's name "also means butterfly in 
Chinese."

There was a thread on Cho back around May 23 
onlist here then moved to OffTopicChatter.  If 
after you check those posts out, perhaps you 
would like to post further thoughts, which if 
not concerning canon, should be at OTC of course.  

The consensus from the participating posters 
then seems to be that Cho's name is not of 
Japanese origin...and of course, translating 
Chinese using Japanese dictionaries would be 
very poor scholarship...Hermione would be 
ever-soooo-appalled.  <g>

There is one other possibility that I rarely 
see discussed.  I'm afraid I've no formal 
training in Korean so I've no answer to this: 
Could Cho Chang be a Korean name?

Petra
a
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