chao

• chan

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese chão, from Latin planus (“flat”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃao̯/, /ˈt͡ʃaw/

chao m (plural chaos)

1. plain, plateau; ground. Alternative form of chan

• Chao

chao m (feminine singular chá, masculine plural chaos, feminine plural chás)

1. flat. Alternative form of chan

• “chao” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “chao” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “chao” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “chao” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “chan” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

chao

1. Nonstandard spelling of chāo.
2. Nonstandard spelling of cháo.
3. Nonstandard spelling of chǎo.
4. Nonstandard spelling of chào.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

• chau

From Italian ciao.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃao/

chao

1. (Latin America and some parts of Spain) bye, goodbye

chao

1. Ki class inflected form of -ao.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕaːw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕaːw˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [caːw˧˧]

chao (挍, 焯)

1. pickled tofu

chao (洲)

1. to glide (in the air)