Her name is pronounced Chow but with a soft C or Show but with a long o. we adopted her and her sister when they were 10 years old (her sister died in 2020), so she came with that name. The husband of the couple who owned them taught in China and speaks Mandarin. They told us the name means "little star" but when I Google it, I get a translation of "miserable", "dreary", and "mugwort"! I much prefer "little star"!