"Chau" meaning in English

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "yue",
        "3": "周",
        "tr": "zau¹"
      },
      "expansion": "Cantonese 周 (zau¹)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Zhou"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of Zhou",
      "name": "doublet"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Cantonese 周 (zau¹). Doublet of Zhou.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Chaus",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Chaus"
      },
      "expansion": "Chau (plural Chaus)",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English surnames",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A surname."
      ],
      "id": "en-Chau-en-name-EMUC1F3L",
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ]
    },
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      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "Zhou"
        }
      ],
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          "source": "w+disamb"
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        {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 84",
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          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1849 August, “Annals of Confucius; or Chronology and Geography of the Chun Ts'iu”, in The Chinese Repository, volume XVIII, number 8, →OCLC, page 397:",
          "text": "9. Kingdom of Yen 燕\nTáking situated in lat. 39° 54' N., long. 116° 28' E., one of the districts of Shuntien fú in Chihlí, now occupies the site of the capital of the ancient kingdom of Yen, the most northern part of the empire under the reign of the Chau dynasty.",
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        "Alternative form of Zhou"
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          "Zhou",
          "Zhou#English"
        ]
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    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tʃaʊ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʊ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Chau"
}

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    "English doublets",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Cantonese",
    "English terms derived from Cantonese",
    "English uncountable nouns",
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    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/aʊ",
    "Rhymes:English/aʊ/1 syllable"
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "yue",
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      "expansion": "Cantonese 周 (zau¹)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Zhou"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of Zhou",
      "name": "doublet"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Cantonese 周 (zau¹). Doublet of Zhou.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Chaus",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Chaus"
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      "expansion": "Chau (plural Chaus)",
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
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    {
      "categories": [
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      ],
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        "A surname."
      ],
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        [
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        ]
      ]
    },
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      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "Zhou"
        }
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          "ref": "1849 August, “Annals of Confucius; or Chronology and Geography of the Chun Ts'iu”, in The Chinese Repository, volume XVIII, number 8, →OCLC, page 397:",
          "text": "9. Kingdom of Yen 燕\nTáking situated in lat. 39° 54' N., long. 116° 28' E., one of the districts of Shuntien fú in Chihlí, now occupies the site of the capital of the ancient kingdom of Yen, the most northern part of the empire under the reign of the Chau dynasty.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of Zhou"
      ],
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tʃaʊ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʊ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Chau"
}