Question: is chiu a chinese name?
Answer: Chiu is a romanization of various Chinese surnames, based on different varieties of Chinese. It may correspond to the surnames spelled in the following ways in Mandarin pinyin: Zhào (趙) or Zhāo (招), from the Cantonese pronunciation. Zhāng (張, 章), from the Hokkien pronunciation; more commonly spelled Teoh or Teo.