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Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga
Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga (鳥獣人物戯画), shortened to Chōjū-giga, is a set of four Japanese ink picture handscrolls at Kyoto's Kōzan-ji temple, made between the 12th and 13th centuries.
Chōka
Chōka (長歌) is a classical Japanese long verse form of alternating five- and seven-syllable lines, recorded in the 8th-century Man'yōshū and usually paired with hanka envoys.
Choke Enough
Choke Enough (choke enough) is the 2025 debut studio album by French electronic pop artist Oklou (Marylou Mayniel), a largely drumless, Y2K- and Baroque-inflected pop record produced with Casey MQ, A.G. Cook, and Danny L Harle, featuring Bladee and underscores.
Choke Me
Choke Me is a 2026 nu-metal and rock song with operatic vocals by Romania's Alexandra Căpitănescu; it won Selecția Națională 2026, placed third with 296 points at Eurovision in Vienna, and sparked a strangulation-lyrics controversy.
Choked (film)
Choked: Paisa Bolta Hai is a 2020 Hindi-language Netflix drama directed by Anurag Kashyap, written by Nihit Bhave, starring Saiyami Kher as a Mumbai bank cashier who finds cash in her kitchen sink amid the 2016 demonetisation.
Choker
Choker: a necklace worn tightly around the neck, typically under 14–16 inches. Known also as colliers de chien; worn since Sumerian times around 2500 BC as amulets, popularized by Alexandra of Denmark, revived in 1990s grunge.
Chokher Bali
Chokher Bali (চোখের বালি), also Chokher Bali: A Passion Play, is Rituparno Ghosh's 2003 Bengali drama adapted from Rabindranath Tagore's 1903 novel, starring Aishwarya Rai as Binodini, with a 1938 Satu Sen film version.
Chokusenshū
Chokusenshū (勅撰集) are Japanese poetry anthologies compiled by imperial or retired-emperor command, most often meaning the twenty-one imperial waka anthologies from the Kokin wakashū (905) to the Shin'yokukokinsū (1439).
Chokwe masks
Chokwe masks are carved wooden masks, notably the female pwo and mwana pwo types, danced by men of the Chokwe peoples of Angola, DR Congo, and Zambia.
Cholent (טשאָלנט)
Cholent (טשאָלנט), also called hamin, dafina, or schalet, is the slow-cooked Jewish Sabbath stew prepared Friday and kept warm overnight for the Shabbat midday meal, typically with meat, beans, barley, and potatoes in the Ashkenazi version.
Cholula Hot Sauce
Cholula Hot Sauce is a mild Mexican hot sauce made from árbol and piquín peppers, recognizable by its round beechwood cap, owned by McCormick since 2020.
Chomana Dudi (ಚೋಮನ ದುಡಿ)
Chomana Dudi (ಚೋಮನ ದುಡಿ), aka The Choma Drum, is a 1975 Kannada drama by B.V. Karanth based on Shivarama Karanth's 1933 novel about the untouchable laborer Choma; it won the 1975 National Award for Best Feature Film.
Chon (band)
Chon (CHON) is an American instrumental math rock band formed in 2008 in San Diego, named for Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen. Albums Grow (2015), Homey (2017), Chon (2019) on Sumerian Records.
Chong Hyon-jong
Chong Hyon-jong (정현종) is a South Korean poet, born in 1939, whose poetry centers on communion between the perceiving self and physical objects; he debuted in 1965.
Chongsheng Laotai Xianli Weijing
Chongsheng Laotai Xianli Weijing (重生老太先离为敬) is a 2025 Chinese vertical-screen rebirth short drama about an elderly woman who divorces after rebirth; 80 episodes, produced by Qiuyuan Film & Television.
Chonmage (丁髷)
Chonmage (丁髷, ちょんまげ) is the Edo-period Japanese men's topknot with a shaved pate (sakayaki), characteristic of samurai. It ended after the 1871 sanpatsu dattōrei and survives in professional sumo wrestling.
Choo Ja-hyun
Choo Ja-hyun (추자현; Chinese stage name 秋瓷炫), born 1979 in Daegu, is a South Korean actress who debuted in 1996, won a 2007 Baeksang for Bloody Tie, starred in China's Temptation of Going Home (2011), and returned to Korean film in 2024's While You Were Sleeping.
Choo Mantar (ಚೂ ಮಂತರ್)
Choo Mantar (ಛೂ ಮಂತರ್), 2025 Kannada horror comedy by Navaneeth, starring Sharan, Aditi Prabhudeva, Meghana Gaonkar, Chikkanna; ghost hunters seek treasure in Nainital's haunted Morgan House; released 10 January 2025.
Choodalani Vundi (చూడాలని వుంది)
Choodalani Vundi (చూడాలని వుంది) is a 1998 Telugu film starring Chiranjeevi, Soundarya, and Prakash Raj. Released on 27 August, it was the highest-grossing Telugu film of 1998.
Choom (춤) (EP)
Choom (춤, CHOOM) is BABYMONSTER's third mini album, released May 4, 2026 by YG Entertainment; four tracks (MOON, CHOOM, I LIKE IT, LOCKED IN), about 750,000 copies sold, a 200-million-view MV, and the namesake 2026-27 world tour.
Choom World Tour
Choom World Tour (2026-27 BABYMONSTER WORLD TOUR [춤 (CHOOM)]) is the second world tour of K-pop girl group BABYMONSTER, named for its third EP CHOOM; it opened June 26-28, 2026 in Seoul and spans 30 shows in 18 cities on five continents, including a first dome concert at Kyocera Dome Osaka drawing 90,000.
Choona
Choona is a 2023 Hindi-language Netflix limited heist comedy-drama series, created, written and directed by Pushpendra Nath Misra, produced by Flying Saucer, starring Jimmy Shergill as politician Avinash Shukla, with eight episodes released 29 September 2023.
Choose Your Own Adventure
Choose Your Own Adventure is the Bantam children's gamebook series launched in 1979 with The Cave of Time, written in second person with branching choices and multiple endings; 184 original titles, over 250 million copies, now published by Chooseco.
Choosin' Texas
Choosin' Texas is a 2025 country song by Ella Langley, co-written with Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick, and Joybeth Taylor. It spent 23 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the longest run in the chart's history, and was the first song to top Country Airplay, Hot Country Songs, and the Hot 100 simultaneously.
Chop suey
Chop suey (杂碎, Cantonese tsa sui, "odds and ends") is an American Chinese stir-fry of meat, celery, onions, and bean sprouts in soy sauce over rice.
Chop Suey!
"Chop Suey!" is a 2001 song by the American metal band System of a Down, written by Daron Malakian and Serj Tankian as the lead single from Toxicity.
Chop-Top
Chop-Top Sawyer, the plate-in-skull hippie cannibal of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986), played by Bill Moseley; twin of the Hitchhiker, quotable franchise icon kept offscreen since by Sony's sequel rights.
Chopin, a Sonata in Paris
Chopin, a Sonata in Paris (Chopin, Chopin!) is a 2025 Polish biographical drama by Michał Kwieciński starring Eryk Kulm as Chopin in Paris 1835–1849, with a near-72-million-złoty budget and a 10 October 2025 Polish release.
Chopped (TV series)
Chopped is a Food Network cooking competition series premiering January 13, 2009, hosted by Ted Allen, in which four chefs cook mystery-basket ingredients across three rounds for a $10,000 prize.
Chopped and screwed
Chopped and screwed is a hip-hop remixing technique pioneered by DJ Screw (Robert Earl Davis Jr.) in Houston in the early 1990s: slowing tracks to about 60-70 BPM and chopping phrases via dual-turntable crossfading, spread nationally through Screw Tapes, Swishahouse, and later Drake, A$AP Rocky, and film scores.