Chung (surname)

Chung is a surname whose bearers are generally people of Chinese or Korean descent. It is also a Vietnamese surname but is very rare in Vietnam; the surname is known as Zhong in Chinese, Jung (정) in Korean, and exactly Chung in Vietnam.

• Chung (Korean surname), a Latin alphabet rendition of the Korean family name "정", also often spelled Jeong, Jung, or Jong.
• Chung or Cheung, a Cantonese romanization of several Chinese surnames, including the one written as 張 in Traditional characters and 张 in Simplified characters (Jyutping: Zoeng1; Pinyin: Zhāng; Wade–Giles: Chang), and the one written in both Traditional characters and Simplified characters as 章. Sometimes, 蔣 (蒋) is also spelled as Cheung instead of Chiang/Jiang due to its Cantonese pronunciation.
• Chung or Zhong (surname), /ˈdʒoʊŋ/ is a transliteration of several Chinese surnames, including Zhōng (鍾/钟), Zhòng (种, mistakenly for Chóng, cf. zh:种姓) and Zhòng (仲), etc.. These are transliterated as Chung (especially in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Malaysia). Sometimes it's transliterated as Cheong or Choong in Malaysia.