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Ye (traditional Chinese: 葉; simplified Chinese: 叶; pinyin: Yè) is a Chinese-language surname. It is listed 257th in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames , [ 1 ] and is the 43rd most common surname in China , with a population of 5.8 million as of 2008 and 2019.
Xiong Yi (Chinese: 熊繹; pinyin: Xióng Yì, reigned 11th century BC) was an early ruler and first vassal lord of the State of Chu during early Zhou dynasty of ancient China. Son of Xiong Kuang , he was traditionally ascribed descent from the Yellow Emperor and Zhuanxu through his great-grandfather Yuxiong .
The King Cheng of Zhou (r. 1042– 1021 BC) then appointed Xiong Yi, Yuxiong's great-grandson, viscount of the fief of Chu. [3] More likely, the clan name is a calque of a non-Sinitic dynasty, with modern scholarship believing the character 芈 was used to transcribe a Kam–Tai word also meaning "bear". [4]
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Yuxiong died during the reign of King Wen of Zhou, and was succeeded by his son Xiong Li.After Zhou overthrew the Shang dynasty, King Wen's grandson King Cheng of Zhou (reigned 1042–1021 BC) awarded Yuxiong's great-grandson Xiong Yi the hereditary title of zĭ (子, roughly "viscount") and the fiefdom of Chu, which in the ensuing centuries developed into one of the most powerful kingdoms of ...
Chinese names for baby boys. Popular Chinese baby boy names in 2024, according to LingoAce.com, a language education site that also tracks baby names. Zichen. Runchu. Yuanyun. Jiehong. Jietang ...
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.
Yi (易), Yick, or Yik is a Chinese surname. A 2013 study found that it was the 114th most-common name, shared by 1.75 million people, or 0.130% of the population, with the largest province being Hunan .