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Chaya may refer to:
Places
- Chaya (Ob), in Tomsk Oblast, Russia, a tributary of Ob River
- Chaya (Lena), in Siberia, Russia, a tributary of Lena River
- Chaya, another name for the Chepelare, a river in Bulgaria
- Chaya County, in Tibet
- Chaya, Afghanistan, a place in Afghanistan
People
- Chaya family, a wealthy family of textile merchants based in Kyoto, Japan from the 16th century into the Edo period
- Chaya Shirōjirō, merchants within that family, wealthy and influential traders with the official patronage of the Tokugawa shogunate
- Afif Chaya (born 1947), Lebanese singer and actor
- B. R. Chaya, Indian playback singer
- Chaja Rubinstein (1872–1965), Polish-born American business magnate
- Chaya Arbel (1921–2007), Israeli composer
- Chaya Czernowin (born 1957), Israeli composer
- Chaya Gusfield, American attorney and rabbi
- Chaya Mushka Schneersohn (fl. 1860), member of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty
- Chaya Mushka Schneerson (1901–1988), member of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty
- Chaya Singh (born 1981), Indian actress
- Maxime Chaya (born 1961), Lebanese sportsman and explorer
Other uses
- Cchaya (literature), an ancient tradition of providing Sanskrit glosses (transliterations) for Prakrit word forms, particularly in classical Indian drama plays
- Chaya (plant), a vegetable
- Chaya tequila, a brand of tequila
- Chayah (heb. חיה literally "life"), in Judaism a term for soul, considered a part of Hashem (God)
- Chaya (film), a Kannada-language film
- Chashitsu (茶室), rooms or small buildings used for the Japanese tea ceremony
- Ochaya (茶屋), "teahouse," a Japanese euphemism for traditional drinking establishments of the early modern period
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