Chiu

Chiu is a romanization of various Chinese surnames, based on different varieties of Chinese. It may correspond to the surnames spelled in the following ways in Mandarin pinyin:

Zhào (趙) or Zhāo (招), from the Cantonese pronunciation
Zhāng (張, 章), from the Hokkien pronunciation; more commonly spelled Teoh or Teo
Zhōu (周), from the Hokkien pronunciation
Qiū (丘, 秋, 邱) or Qiú (裘, 仇), from a variant of the Mandarin Wade–Giles spelling Ch'iu
Jiù (就), from the Mandarin Wade–Giles spelling

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