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Kang (康, pinyin: Kāng) is a Chinese surname. It is the 88th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem. [1] Kang Senghui (died 280), Buddhist monk of Sogdian origin; Kang Youwei (1858–1927), reformist political figure from the late Qing dynasty; Kang Tongbi (1887–1969), social activist from the early Republic of China period, Kang Youwei's ...
Jiang (Chinese: 江; Jyutping: Gong 1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kang, also romanized Chiang, Kong, Kang) is a Chinese surname, accounting for 0.26% of the Han Chinese population. It is the 52nd most common Chinese surname and is the 141st surname listed in the Hundred Family Surnames poem, contained in the line 江童顏郭 (Jiāng, Tóng, Yán, Guō).
A 2010 study by Baiju Shah & al data-mined the Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card recipients in the province of Ontario for a particularly Chinese-Canadian name list. Ignoring potentially non-Chinese spellings such as Lee (49,898 total), [24]: Table 1 they found that the most common Chinese names in Ontario were: [24]
Kang (Chinese surname), a Chinese surname (康) Kang (Korean surname), a common Korean surname (강; 姜) C.S. Eliot Kang (born 1962), American diplomat and member of the U.S. Senior Executive Service; Eugene Kang (born 1984), Special Projects Coordinator and Confidential Assistant to U.S. President Barack Obama
The AP is not naming the employees — who did provide their surnames, per common Chinese practice — out of concern about possible retribution. ... Kang reported from Chengdu, China. AP ...
It is the 60th most common surname in China (2007), roughly 0.34% [when?] of the Han Chinese population. [1] The Lu clan of Fanyang stem from this surname before taking on the Lu (盧) surname. Derivative surnames of Jiang include Zhang, [2] Lü, [3] Qiu, [4] Shen., [5] These originated: In the Qi (state), Jiang Ziya's descendants had the ...
Hundred Family Surnames poem written in Chinese characters and Phagspa script, from Shilin Guangji written by Chen Yuanjing in the Yuan dynasty. The Hundred Family Surnames (Chinese: 百家姓), commonly known as Bai Jia Xing, [1] also translated as Hundreds of Chinese Surnames, [2] is a classic Chinese text composed of common Chinese surnames.
Kang is a Korean family name. All together, the holders of this name number are 1,176,847 in South Korea, according to the 2015 national census, ranking 6th largest Korean family name. [1] While the name "Kang" can actually represent 5 different hanja, or Chinese characters, the great majority (more than 1 million) bear the surname 姜. [1]