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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. List of common Chinese surnames - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Category:Chinese-language surnames - Wikipedia

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    List of people with the Chinese family name Liu; Liǔ; Loi (surname) Long (Chinese surname) Looi; Lou (surname 楼) Lou (surname 娄) Lu (surname 盧) Lu (surname 祿) Lu (surname 蘆) Lu (surname 路) Lu (surname 逯) Lu (surname 陸) Lu (surname 魯) Lu (surname 鹿) Lu (surname) Lü (surname) Luan (surname) Lui (surname) Luo (surname) Luò ...

  5. Chinese surname - Wikipedia

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    Chinese surname is patrilinear where the father's surname is passed on to his children, but more recently some people have opted to use both parents' surnames; although this practice has increased in recent times, it is still relatively uncommon in China, with those who adopted both parents' surnames numbering at only 1.1 million in 2018 (up ...

  6. Hundred Family Surnames - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Chinese compound surname - Wikipedia

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    A Chinese compound surname is a Chinese surname using more than one character. Many of these compound surnames derive from Zhou dynasty Chinese noble and official titles, professions, place names and other areas, to serve a purpose. Some are originally from various tribes that lived in ancient China, while others were created by joining two one ...

  8. Lists of most common surnames in Asian countries - Wikipedia

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    The law does not allow one to create any surname that is duplicated with any existing surnames. [17] Under Thai law, only one family can create any given surname: any two people of the same surname must be related, and it is very rare for two people to share the same full name. In one sample of 45,665 names, 81% of family names were unique. [18]

  9. Bao (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Bao Xu, fictional Song dynasty outlaw from the novel Water Margin; Bao Chao (1828–1886), Qing dynasty general and official; Bao Tong (1932–2022), former Chinese politician; Bao Guo'an (born 1946), Chinese actor; Bao Xishun (born 1951), ethnic Mongolian man from China recognized as the tallest man on earth; Yih-Ho Michael Pao, American engineer