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  2. Cao (Chinese surname) - Wikipedia

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    The later claim that Cao is said to have been descended from the Yellow Emperor via the Zhuanxu Emperor should not be confused with the Chinese surname Gao or the Vietnamese surname Cao. It was the origin of the modern Cāo and Zhu families. Yan (顏) was from Cao (曹). [4] Granted to Cao Guan, taking the official as his surname.

  3. Zeng Xueming - Wikipedia

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    Zeng Xueming (Chinese: 曾雪明; [1] October 1905 – 14 November 1991), known in Vietnamese as Tăng Tuyết Minh, was a Chinese midwife.She was a Catholic from Guangzhou and it was claimed that she married Nguyễn Ái Quốc (a pseudonym used by Vietnamese communist leader Hồ Chí Minh) in October 1926.

  4. Tong (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Tong is a Chinese surname. Tong as transcribed in English however represents of a number of different Chinese surnames. There were 8,589 Tongs in the United States during the year 2000 census, making it the 3,075th surname overall and the 121st surname among Asian and Pacific Islanders.

  5. Cao Zhi (Yungong) - Wikipedia

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    When Cao Zijian died in December 232, Cao Zhi inherited his peerage as Prince of Chen; he was later appointed Prince of Jibei. During the Jingchu era (237–239) of Cao Rui's reign, Cao Zijian was posthumously rehabilitated, and his literary works were allowed to be compiled and stored. Cao Zhi's fiefdom was also expanded to 990 households. [8]

  6. Ngô Đình Nhu - Wikipedia

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    Nhu's family originated from the central Vietnamese village of Phú Cam. [verification needed] His family had served as mandarins in the imperial court in Huế. His father, Ngô Đình Khả, was a counselor to Emperor Thành Thái during the French colonisation. After the French deposed the emperor on the pretext of insanity, Khả retired in ...

  7. Nguyen - Wikipedia

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    Outside Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics, as Nguyen. Nguyen was the seventh most common family name in Australia in 2006 [8] (second only to Smith in Melbourne phone books [9]), and the 54th most common in France. [10] It was the 41st most common surname in Norway in 2020 [11] and tops the foreign name list in the ...

  8. Pomato (company) - Wikipedia

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    Pomato invited her to join the group to make videos. Her mother was a huge fan of the singer Teresa Teng, so her maternal grandfather selected her name to be similar in sound to the actress' name. [13] Choi Hiu Tung [Wikidata] (Chinese: 蔡曉童), known as 童童 (Tung Tung), began acting at school in sixth grade and joined Pomato in 2017. She ...

  9. Nùng people - Wikipedia

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    After the Sino-Vietnamese War, support for Nùng Trí Cao could be read as anti-Chinese, as he was mainly seen as a rebel against Chinese authority. [ 53 ] [ 54 ] Even so, during the 1980s, an estimated 250,000 ethnic Vietnamese were settled in the mountainous regions along the Chinese border, leading to a shortage of food in the region and ...