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The Chinese expression "Three Zhang Four Li" (simplified Chinese: 张三李四; traditional Chinese: 張三李四; pinyin: Zhāng Sān Lǐ Sì) is used to mean "anyone" or "everyone", [4] but the most common surnames are currently Wang in mainland China [5] and Chen in Taiwan. [6]
from Chinese 洪 "Hong" meaning water or flood listed 184th among the Song-era Hundred Family Surnames ហ៊ុន: hun: Hun: money investment, share (of stocks). Thai or Chinese etymology. [4] Possibly related to 份 ("Hun" in Hokkien) meaning "share, portion." ហូ: hou: Ho/Hu: 胡 (Chinese "Hu") ឡាយ Lay 來/来 (Chinese "Lai ...
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.
Two distinct types of Chinese surnames existed in ancient China, namely xing (Chinese: 姓; pinyin: xìng) ancestral clan names and shi (Chinese: 氏; pinyin: shì) branch lineage names. Later, the two terms began to be used interchangeably, and in the present day, xing refers to the surname and shi may refer either the clan or maiden name.
[1] [2] [3] Zheng was a major surname of the rich and powerful during China's Tang dynasty. [4] In Republic of China (Taiwan) and Hong Kong, the name is normally romanized as Cheng or Tcheng (occasionally romanized as Chang in Hong Kong although that variant is more commonly used for another Chinese name, Zhang).
Most of the Manchu clans took on their Han surnames after the demise of the Qing dynasty.Several clans took on Han identity as early as in the Ming dynasty period. The surnames were derived from the Chinese meaning of their original clan name, Chinese transliteration of the clan's name, the possessed territories, generation and personal names of the clansmen and also inspired by the surnames ...
It is the 5th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem. The Korean surname, "Joo" or "Ju", and The Vietnamese surname, "Châu" or "Chu", are both derived from and written with the same Chinese character (周). The character also means "around". Zhōu also stands for other, rare Chinese family names, 舟, 州，and 洲.
Rǎn is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written 冉 in Chinese character. It is romanized Jan in Wade–Giles. Ran is listed 301st in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames. [1] As of 2008, it is the 178th most common surname in China, shared by 670,000 people. [2]