Chen Explained

Chen or Ch'en may refer to:

People

• Chen (surname) (陳 / 陈), a common Chinese surname
• Chen (singer) (born 1992), member of the South Korean-Chinese boy band EXO
• Chen Chen (poet) (born 1989), Chinese-American poet
• Hebrew: חֵן (Hebrew: Khen), a Hebrew first name or surname:
  • Hen Lippin (born 1965), former Israeli basketball player
  • Chen Reiss (born 1979), Israeli operatic soprano
  • Ronen Chen (born 1965), Israeli fashion designer

Historical states

• Chen (state) (c. 1045 BC–479 BC), a Zhou dynasty state in present-day Anhui and Henan
• Chen (Thessaly), a city-state in ancient Thessaly, Greece
• Chen Commandery, a commandery in China from Han dynasty to Sui dynasty
• Chen dynasty (557–589), a Chinese southern dynasty during the Northern and Southern dynasties period

Businesses and organizations

• Council for Higher Education in Newark (CHEN)
• Chen (Hebrew: ח״ן|link=no), acronym in Hebrew for the Women's Army Corps (Hebrew: חיל נשים, Hebrew: khayil nashim) a defunct organization in the Israeli Defence Force
• Chen, a brand name used by Mexican frozen food distributor Sigma Alimentos

Other uses

• Chen, a genus of geese which is now generally included in Anser
• Chen's notation, a graphical entity-relationship model devised by Peter Chen
• Chen-style taijiquan, a Chinese martial art created by the Chen family
• Chen, a character from the Touhou Project video game series
• Chen, a playable panda character in the video game Heroes of the Storm

See also

• Cheng (disambiguation)
• Khen (disambiguation)
• Zhen (disambiguation) (Note that Chinese names transcribed Zhen in the modern Pinyin system were transcribed Chen in the older Wade–Giles system)