Chaufik

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Name: chaufik

Gender: Unisex

Location: Australia

Language: Chinese

Thematic: History

Meaning: Strategist, Highly Intelligent, Military Genius

However it derived from the Chinese Surname ZHAO, see below for detail

Zhao (pinyin: zhào, Wade-Giles: Chao, simplified Chinese: 赵, traditional Chinese: 趙) is a common Chinese family name, which ranks 8th largest number of people with this surname in Mainland China. The origin of the family name came from the people of State of Zhao in ancient China.

Zhao is the first surname in the Book of Surnames (literally translated: The 100 Family Names). Zhao is the first surname because Zhao was the name of the emperor when the book was created. The book was created as a form of census.

The family name can be transliterated to Chew, Chiu, Jiu or Jew in Cantonese.

Zhao can also be a less common family name 兆 (Siu in Cantonese.)

Zhao is represented in Korean by either Cho or Jo.

Zhao is represented in Vietnamese by Triệu

Comments: Brief History

• Originated from the Sumatra island, a small town of Xien-Tar.
• The name was Indonesianised by Zhao Xao Hwa (Also known as Hartoyo Chaufik) a Chinese Indonesian businessman.
• A prominent middle-class Chinese Indonesian family name in the 1980s & 1990s.
• During the 1997/1998 Asian Crisis, the family was greatly affected.
• The second generation of Hartoyo Chaufik are all Chinese Australian.
• Linked to many conglomerate groups with offices in Indonesia, Singapore, USA, UK, Malaysia, China, Japan, Australia & many South-Eastern nations.
• The third generation is a mixture of Chinese Australian & Chinese Singaporean.

Origination of the Zhao

FOUNDER OF ZHAO

• According to historic records, the first ancestor with the surname Zhao was Shaohao Jintian, one of the five prehistoric emperors.
• The legend goes that Nuxiu, daughter of Shaohao, gave birth to Gaotao for swallowing a black bird egg.
• Zaofu, the 14th grandson of Gaotai, lived during the Zhou Dynasty. He was good at saddling horses and harnessing carts and was favored by Emperor Mu of the Zhou Dynasty. Later, to credit him for crushing the rebellion led by Lord Xuyan and for escorting Emperor Mu safely back to the capital, the descendents of Zaofu took the name of the city, Zhao, as their surname.
• At that point, the earliest Chinese Zhao family surname came into being.

ZHOU DYNASTY - THE WARRING STATES

• In the late Zhou Dynasty, Shudai, the 7th grandson of Zaofu, went to the state of Jin for shelter with some clans because he had been ousted by his family. However, the remaining Zhao clan that had not moved to the State of Jin still lived in Zhao city.
• From then on, the surname Zhao not only took root in the state of Jin, but also became more popular.
• The state of Zhao which originated in the state of Jin later became one of the "Seven Overlord States" in the Warring States period.

POST QIN DYNASTY

• After the state of Zhao was destroyed by the state of Qin, two branches of the surname Zhao emerged: Tianshui Zhao and Zhuojun Zhao.
• Emperor Qin Shi Huang expelled the last Emperor of the state of Zhao, Zhao Jia, to Xirong.
• Some followers with the Zhao surname also moved to Gansu, living in a place named Tianshui and thus forming the Tianshui branch of the Zhao surname.
• Zhao Qian, son of Lord Daoxiang of the state of Zhao, was exiled to Pangling (Pang county in central China's Hubei province) and later his descendants moved from Pangling to Liwu in Zhuo county (Boye county in north China's Hebei province), thus forming another branch of the Zhao surname, Zhuojun Zhao.
• From then on, the Zhao surname greatly expanded, reaching as far as the northern and central parts of Vietnam.
• They are Zhao descendants in Europe, America, Australia and even South America