Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Zhao comes from Mandarin, and ultimately from Chinese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Zhao as a surname developed from 趙.
Zhao’s family of names
In English usage, Zhao as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with TRIEU. In English usage, Zhao as a surname developed from the Chinese form 趙.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 12
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- 趙root · Chinese
- Soequivalent
- Trieudoublet · English
- 朝equivalent
- 肇equivalent
- Chiuequivalent
- 照equivalent
- 招equivalent
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People named Zhao
- Gwangjong of GoryeoGoryeo ruler (925-975)
- Zhang ZhaoChinese calligrapher, essayist and general (156–236)
- Zhao XiaodingChinese photographer and cinematographerborn 1968
- Zhao JiuzhangChinese scientist (1907-1968)
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