Chinese surnames

车

chē · Che

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 228
Ancestral seat (junwang)
京兆
Wikidata
Q4518490

In other languages

  • German Che
  • English Che
  • Spanish Che
  • French Che
  • Japanese 車
  • Korean 처
  • Russian Чэ
  • Vietnamese Xa
  • Traditional Chinese 車

Notable historical bearers

Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.

  • Che Zhou? – 199
  • Wukong731 – 812

    Chinese Buddhist monk and pilgrim under the Tang dynasty

  • Che Yaoxian1894 – 1946

    Chinese army officer and communist

  • 车胤350 – 400
  • Che Wanyu1632 – 1705

    Qing dynasty person CBDB = 72266

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Sources: the Hundred Family Surnames (public domain) with ancestral seats from the chinese-poetry dataset (MIT); spellings and people from Wikidata (CC0).