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) Tjee, Tjeuw, Tjoo, Tjouw (Indonesian)
Cognate(s)	Zhu 朱
Derivative(s)	Murdaya (Chinese Indonesian)

Zou (traditional Chinese: 鄒; simplified Chinese: 邹; pinyin: Zōu) is the 67^th 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 35^th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.