Meaning of Cho's name

[Jonathan House]

No: HPFGUIDX 61195

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, <monkshoodgardens at c...> wrote:
> Now Macha:
> I wrote during the thread about the ethnic origin of Cho's name
> that I had read in a JKR interview (cannot locate it...sorry), 
> that JKR had stated that Cho's name was, indeed, Korean....I don't 
> know how accurate this interview was although it claimed to be 
> so...up unti then, I had assumed that she was Chinese as well...at 
> this point, I'm half-way assuming she's Korean until canon tells 
> me otherwise.
>
As a practitioner of Korean Martial arts (which of course makes me 
an expert ;-) ) I can say that Cho Chang is indeed within the realm 
of possibility for Korean names. There has been a lot of cultural 
interchange between the two cultures over time. To give a very 
limited instance, both Chinese and Korean number names are used 
(Chinese - il, ee, sahm, sah / Korean - hana, dul, set, net).

Jonathan House