Chen

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Chen may refer to:

People

• Chen (surname) (陳/陈), a common Chinese surname
• Chen (singer), a member of the Chinese-South Korean boy band EXO
• חן (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 regimes

• Chen (state) (c. 1045 BC–479 BC), a Zhou Dynasty vassal state in present-day Anhui and Henan
• Chen (Thessaly), a city-state in ancient Thessaly, Greece
• Chen dynasty (557–589), a southern dynasty during the Northern and Southern dynasties period

Businesses and organizations

• Council for Higher Education in Newark (CHEN)
• Chen, acronym in Hebrew for the Women's Army Corp, a defunct organization in the Israeli Defence Force
• Chen, a brand name used by Mexican frozen food distributor Sigma Alimentos

Other uses

• Chen (genus), a genus of geese which is sometimes included in Anser
• Chen's notation, a graphical entity-relationship model devised by Peter Chen
• Chen-style t'ai chi ch'uan, a Chinese martial art created by the Chen family
• Chen, a character from the Touhou Project video game series

See also

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