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Li is the pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization (spelled Lí, Lǐ, or Lì when pinyin tone diacritics are used) of several distinct Chinese surnames that are written with different characters in Chinese. Li 李 is by far the most common among them, shared by 93 million people in China, [1] and more than 100 million worldwide. [2]
Even today, the number of surnames in China is a little over 4,000, [1] while the year 2000 United States census found there are more than 6.2 million surnames altogether [2] and that the number of surnames held by 100 or more Americans (per name) was just over 150,000. [3] The Chinese expression "Three Zhang Four Li" (simplified Chinese ...
Jimin has released three solo tracks under BTS' name—"Lie" in 2016, "Serendipity" in 2017, and "Filter" in 2020—all of which have charted on South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart. He released his first credited solo song, the digital track "Promise", which he co-wrote, in 2018 and recorded the duet " With You " with Ha Sung-woon for the ...
Li or Lee (; Chinese: 李; pinyin: Lǐ) is a common Chinese surname, it is the 4th name listed in the famous Hundred Family Surnames. [2] Li is one of the most common surnames in Asia, shared by 92.76 million people in China, [3] and more than 100 million in Asia. [4]
Kaare Lie, Norwegian footballer and journalist; Niels Lie, Danish chess player; Reidar Lie, Norwegian philosopher; The common Hokkien transcription of Chinese surname Li (李), spelled Lie (Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lí) in Indonesia and Netherlands: Lie Kim Hok, peranakan Chinese writer, social worker; Lie Tek Swie, Indonesian film director
This is a list of people with the surname Li (李). Lǐ is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written 李 in Chinese character.It is one of the most common surnames in China and the world, shared by more than 93 million people in China, and more than 100 million worldwide. [1]
In contrast to the relative paucity of Chinese surnames, given names can theoretically include any of the Chinese language's 100,000 characters [1] and contain almost any meaning. It is considered disrespectful in China to name a child after an older relative, and both bad practice and disadvantageous for the child's fortune to copy the names ...
Chinese names are personal names used by individuals from Greater China and other parts of the Sinophone world. Sometimes the same set of Chinese characters could be chosen as a Chinese name, a Hong Kong name, a Japanese name, a Korean name, a Malaysian Chinese name, or a Vietnamese name, but they would be spelled differently due to their varying historical pronunciation of Chinese characters.