Chan
[tʃæn]Meaning
means "moon" in Khmer, ultimately from Sanskrit चन्द्र (candra)
Background Story
Chan means "moon" in Khmer, ultimately from Sanskrit candra, and is used as a given name in Assamese, Bengali, Burmese, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Nepali, Tamil and Telugu. Chantha is a variant form. In English it is also a surname, borrowed from Cantonese 陳 / 陈 and from Hokkien 曾, and a non-pinyin romanisation of several Chinese surnames.
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