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Mi is the atonal Wade–Giles and pinyin romanization of various Chinese surnames.Transcribing the character 羋, it was the name of the royal house of the ancient state of Chu.It is also the transcription of the surnames 麋, 米, and 禰, along with a few other less common names.
Pages in category "Chinese-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 349 total. ... Mi (surname) Miáo (surname) Min ...
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]
The eight surnames of Zhurong (Chinese: 祝融八姓) are eight Chinese surnames derived from the descendants of the ancient Chinese legendary figure Zhurong.The Eight surnames that came after the Zhurong tribe, according to the Guoyu, a historical Chinese text, are Ji, Dong, Peng, Tu, Wei, Cao, Zhen, and Mi.
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 ...
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.
Mài is a Chinese surname. It is commonly transliterated as Mak in Hong Kong, based on the Cantonese pronunciation, though other transliterations exist. "麥" is the standard character in both Traditional and Simplified scripts but 麦 is also a variant seen in both. The meaning of the Chinese character is either wheat or barley.
Mei (Chinese: 梅; pinyin: Méi) is a romanized spelling of a Chinese surname, transcribed in the Mandarin dialect. In Hong Kong and other Cantonese-speaking regions, the name may be transliterated as Mui or Moy. [1] In Vietnam, this surname is written as Mai. In romanized Korean, it is spelled Mae. The name literally translates in English to ...