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Chinese names also form the basis for many common Cambodian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese surnames, and to an extent, Filipino surnames in both translation and transliteration into those languages. The conception of China as consisting of the "old hundred families" (Chinese: 老百姓; pinyin: Lǎo Bǎi Xìng; lit.
Such names are roughly equivalent to the English or Welsh surnames Richardson or Richards. The Russian equivalent of 'Smith', 'Jones', and 'Brown' (that is, the generic most often used surnames) are Ivanov, Petrov, Sidorov , or 'Johns', 'Peters', and ' Isidores ', although Sidorov is now ranked only 66th.
For example, Phan Văn Khải is properly addressed as Mr. Khải, even though Phan is his family name.) Chinese family names have many types of origins, some claiming dates as early as the legendary Yellow Emperor (2nd millennium BC): from the land or state that one lived in or awarded: Chen 陳 after the state of Chen, Cai 蔡 after the state ...
Chinese surnames have a history of over 3,000 years. Chinese mythology, however, reaches back further to the legendary figure Fuxi (with the surname Feng), who was said to have established the system of Chinese surnames to distinguish different families and prevent marriage of people with the same family names. [8]
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It originated from the given name of one of Cao Cao's descendants after the establishment of Cao Wei. Its modern use as a curse word depends on a recent homophone and is unrelated to the surname. Cǎo was likely *tsʰˤuʔ in Old Chinese, but had become a homophonous TshawX by Middle Chinese; its meaning is still "grass" and similar plants. [3]
Cài (Chinese: 蔡) is a Chinese-language surname that derives from the name of the ancient Cai state.In 2019 it was the 38th most common surname in China, [1] but the 9th most common in Taiwan (as of 2018), where it is usually romanized as "Tsai" (based on Wade-Giles romanization of Standard Mandarin [2]), "Tsay", or "Chai" and the 8th most common in Singapore, where it is usually romanized ...
The name is widely used in Hong Kong and some of the Commonwealth countries. Many migrants moved to parts of south-east Asia, Europe, Canada, Australia and the United States. Wong is also a rare English surname derived from Old English "Geong" meaning young. However, Young is the more common surname from this origin.