surname Chou
Depicts of a hand or paw with fingernails or claws. The current meaning is a phonetic loan. In simplified Chinese 丑 is also used to mean "ugly", while in traditional Chinese this meaning is written with a separate character 醜.
《說文》：“丑，紐也。十二月，萬物動，用事。象手之形。時加丑，亦舉手時也。”