Zou (surname)

Zou

Zou surname in regular script
Romanization	Zōu (Pinyin) Chau (Pe̍h-ōe-jī) Tsou (Wade-Giles)
Language(s)	Chinese, Vietnamese
Origin
Language(s)	Old Chinese
Derivation	Zou (state)
Other names
Variant form(s)	Zou, Tsou (Mandarin) Chow (Hong Kong) Chou (Teochew) Chau, Chao (Hokkien) Trâu (Vietnamese)
Cognate(s)	Zhu 朱

Zou (traditional Chinese: 鄒; simplified Chinese: 邹; Wade–Giles: Tsou) is the 67th most common Chinese surname, which originated from the state of Zou of the Spring and Autumn period in ancient China.^[1] Depending on Chinese variety, Zou can be transliterated as Chow, Chau, Tsau, Trau, Tsou, Tjeuw or Chew. It is the 35th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.