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Cháng (/ tʃ ɑː ŋ /) [1] is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 常 (Cháng).It was listed 80th among the Song-era Hundred Family Surnames. "Chang" is also the Wade-Giles romanization of two Chinese surnames written Zhang in pinyin: one extremely common and written 張 in Traditional Chinese and 张 in Simplified Chinese, and another quite rare and written as 章 in both systems.
Zhang (surname) Zhang ([ʈʂáŋ] ⓘ; traditional Chinese: 張; simplified Chinese: 张) is the third most common surname in China and Taiwan (commonly spelled as Chang in Taiwan), and it is one of the most common surnames in the world. [2][3] It is spoken in the first tone Zhāng. It is a surname that exists in many languages and cultures ...
These top five surnames – Wang, Lee (Li), Zhang, Liu, Chen – alone accounted for more people than Indonesia, the fourth most populous country in the world, [ 13 ] The next five – Yang, Huang, Zhao, Wu, and Zhou – were each shared by more than 20 million Chinese.
Most commonly, the entirety of an individual's Chinese given name is used in their Indonesian-sounding name. As an example, Mochtar Riady adapted his Chinese given name, Lie Mo Tie (Chinese: 李文正), by transforming Mo to Moch - and Tie to - tar in his Indonesian name. His surname was ultimately excluded.
Chen is 5th most common surname in mainland China, but 4th most common in the world due to the larger overseas population. With all its various spellings and pronunciations, there are around 80–100 million people surnamed 陳/陈 worldwide. [7] The surname Cheng (程) is sometimes romanized as Chen (e.g., John S. Chen).
Zheng Yifeng (born 1851), businessman and philanthropist based in Bangkok, known as Yi Kor Hong or Er Ger Feng. Claudio Teehankee (1918–1989), Chinese-Filipino judge, later ambassador. He is included here under Cheng, Zheng because in Hokkien, his surname is Tee; similar to Malaysian or Singapore surnames Teh or Tay.
Since preserving the name's sound was legally important, common forms of Surname changes involved spelling adaptations that helped English readers replicate the original German pronunciation. [24] The First and Second World Wars created pockets of xenophobia against German Americans.
Yoo (Korean surname) 劉 / 刘 (/ ljoʊ / or / ljuː / [1]) is an East Asian surname. pinyin: Liú in Mandarin Chinese, Lau4 in Cantonese. It is the family name of the Han dynasty emperors. The character 劉 originally meant 'battle axe', but is now used only as a surname.