Keluo Chuo

Keluo Chuo, 珂羅啜, is a Göktürk title that the Tongdian explains from the word for black. The Göktürks, it says, called black keluobian, and so there was the keluo chuo.^[1] The office was very high, and men of great age held it.^[1] The passage belongs to its account of the early ranks of the khaganate. Their names were taken from the body, from age, from colour and hair, from wine and meat, or from animals.^[1]

The second element is 啜, chuo, the character with which the Tang histories write the rank of chur.^[2] The Tongdian writes the word for black with three characters and the title with two of them. It does not say why.^[1] It names no holder of the title.^[1]