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Chan


Chan


Chan may refer to:

Places

  • Chan (commune), Cambodia
  • Chan Lake, by Chan Lake Territorial Park in Northwest Territories, Canada

People

  • Chan (surname), romanization of various Chinese surnames (including 陳, 曾, 詹, 戰, and 田)
  • Chan Caldwell (1920–2000), Canadian football coach
  • Chan Gailey (born 1952), American football coach
  • Chan Kai-kit (born 1952), Macanese businessman
  • Chan Reec Madut, South Sudanese jurist
  • Chan Romero (born 1941), American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and musicians
  • Chan Santokhi (born 1959), President of Suriname and former chief of police
  • Ta Chan, nom de guerre of Cambodian war criminal Mam Nai

Computing and media

  • chan-, an abbreviation for channels in Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
  • chan, a common suffix for the title of an imageboard

As an acronym/initialism

  • African Nations Championship or Championnat d'Afrique des Nations (CHAN), an African football tournament
  • CHAN-DT, a TV station in Vancouver, Canada

Other uses

  • Chan Buddhism (禅), a school of Mahayana Buddhism
  • -chan, a Japanese suffix which expresses endearment
  • Chan (ฉันท์), a form of Thai poetry
  • "Chans" (Kent song)
  • Chan, the plant Hyptis suaveolens, a relative of mint also known as "pignut"
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See also

  • Chen (surname), pronounced in Cantonese as Chan (陳)
  • Chung (surname)
  • Zen (disambiguation), Japanese Buddhist school originating from Chan Buddhism
  • Dhyana (disambiguation), Indian Mahayana Buddhist school, origin of the Chan and Zen schools

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