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Chan may refer to:

People

• Chan Marshall, American musician better known as Cat Power
• Chan (surname), Chinese surname; Mandarin transcription of the same name is Chen (surname)
  • Agnes Chan, Hong Kong singer, also famous in Japan
  • Charlie Chan, fictional Chinese-American detective
  • Eason Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer
  • Francis Chan, American preacher
  • Frankie Chan, nephew of Brian Leung
  • Jackie Chan, Chinese actor, action choreographer, film director, producer, martial artist, screenwriter, singer and stunt performer
  • Jordan Chan Siu-Chun, Chinese singer
  • Johnny Chan, poker player
  • Kim Chan, American actor
  • Patrick Chan, Canadian figure skater
  • Priscilla Chan, Hong Kong singer
  • Vincy Chan, Cantopop singer from Hong Kong
  • Wing-tsit Chan, a Chinese scholar
• Chan of Cambodia, Cambodian king who ruled from 1642-1659
  • Allison Chan, Chinese lawyer
  • Gauthier Chan, Hong Kong actor
  • Chandra Nath Kumar, greatest player of AOE-II playing with the nick 'chan' from ISM DHANBAD JHARKHAND INDIA

East Asian expressions

• Zen (禪), a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism, pronounced Chán in Mandarin language while Zen in Japanese.
• Japanese (language) for "in relationship or owning of"
• -chan, a Japanese honorific title

Computing and media

• chan-, an abbreviation of IRC channel
• *chan, a common suffix for the title of an imageboard, such as 4chan
• CHAN-TV, a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia

Other

• Chan, the plant Hyptis suaveolens, a relative of mint and also known as "pignut"
• Ch'an, a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism cognate to the Japanese Zen
• Chan (commune), a commune in Cambodia
• Chan, a village in Chan (commune), Cambodia
• CHampionnat Afrique de Nations, an African football tournament established by CAF in 2007

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Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

English

Proper noun

Chan

1. A surname of Chinese origin.

Filipino

Pronunciation

• IPA: /chan/

Etymology

Min Nan Hokkien 陳 (Tân) and 曾 (Chan).

Proper noun

Chan

1. A surname of Chinese origin.

From Familypedia

Chan Sheen Chong was born 1883 in Sa Chuen, Canton, Jungseng and died 16 December 1957 in Manaia, in Waimate Plains, in Taranaki, at the age of 74 years of unspecified causes.

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