Chun
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Chun may refer to:
Places
- Chun River in Thailand
- Chun District in Phayao Province, Thailand
- Chûn Castle, a hillfort in the United Kingdom
- Commandery (China), an administrative division of imperial China romanized as chün by the Wade-Giles system
- "Chun" is a Biblical city, an Aramaean city also called Kun or Cunnce
People and names
- Jeon (Korean surname), also spelled Chun (written with the characters 全, 田, or 錢)
- Cheon (Korean surname), also spelled Chun, a Korean surname written with the same character (千) as the Chinese surname Qiān
- Chen (surname) (陳), a Chinese surname also spelled Chun
- Chun, a biblical name; see List of Biblical names
- Carl Chun (1852–1914), German marine biologist
- Prince Chun (disambiguation), the title of various princes of the Chinese Qing Dynasty
- Chun the Unavoidable, a character from Jack Vance's Dying Earth stories.
Other
- Ch'un, a former spelling of chen or shen, a type of Chinese clam monster
- Chun (season) (Chinese: 春), the Chinese season of spring, consisting of the end of winter and beginning of spring
"Chun" (Irish language)is a preposition governing the genitive case meaning "to, in order to, for".[1] Tá mé ag dul chun na scoile - I am going to (the) school Tá mé ar an bhealach chun bainisteoir an bhainc a fheiceáil. I am on the way (in order) to see the bank manager.
References
- ^ Collins Pocket Irish Dictionary