Chan Explained

Chan may refer to:

Places

• Chan (commune), Cambodia
• Chan Lake, by Chan Lake Territorial Park in Northwest Territories, Canada

People

• Chan (surname), romanization of various Chinese surnames (including 陳, 曾, 詹, 戰, and 田)
• Chan Caldwell (1920–2000), Canadian football coach
• Chan Gailey (born 1952), American football coach
• Chan Kai-kit (born 1952), Macanese businessman
• Chan Reec Madut, South Sudanese jurist
• Chan Romero (born 1941), American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and musicians
• Chan Santokhi (born 1959), President of Suriname and former chief of police
• Ta Chan, nom de guerre of Cambodian war criminal Mam Nai

Computing and media

• chan-, an abbreviation for channels in Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
• chan, a common suffix for the title of an imageboard

As an acronym/initialism

• African Nations Championship or Championnat d'Afrique des Nations (CHAN), an African football tournament
• CHAN-DT, a TV station in Vancouver, Canada

Other uses

• Chan Buddhism (禅), a school of Mahayana Buddhism
• -chan, a Japanese suffix which expresses endearment
• Chan (Thai: ฉันท์), a form of Thai poetry
• "Chans" (Kent song)
• Chan, the plant Hyptis suaveolens, a relative of mint also known as "pignut"

See also

• Chen (surname), pronounced in Cantonese as Chan (陳)
• Chung (surname)
• Zen (disambiguation), Japanese Buddhist school originating from Chan Buddhism
• Dhyana (disambiguation), Indian Mahayana Buddhist school, origin of the Chan and Zen schools