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Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames (姓, sei), [1] as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written the same in kanji may also be pronounced differently. [2]
Cường Để, Vietnamese revolutionary and royal relative of Nguyễn; Phong Chi, female idol (Vietnamese parents, raised in Japan) Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, artist (Vietnamese father) Yūki Tai, voice actor (Vietnamese/Japanese parent) Masato Seto, Japanese Thai photographer (Born to a Thai mother of Vietnamese descent and a Japanese father)
Such names are roughly equivalent to the English or Welsh surnames Richardson or Richards. The Russian equivalent of 'Smith', 'Jones', and 'Brown' (that is, the generic most often used surnames) are Ivanov, Petrov, Sidorov , or 'Johns', 'Peters', and ' Isidores ', although Sidorov is now ranked only 66th.
Lists of East Asian surnames include common Chinese, Japanese, and Korean surnames, or family names. List of common Chinese surnames List of common Japanese surnames
Additionally, some Vietnamese names can only be differentiated via context or with their corresponding chữ Hán, such as 南 ("south") or 男 ("men", "boy"), both are read as Nam. Anyone applying for Vietnamese nationality must also adopt a Vietnamese name. [2] Vietnamese names have corresponding Hán character adopted early on during Chinese ...
Pages in category "Japanese-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,986 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This Chinese name is also the source of the Vietnamese surname Tô (Chữ Nôm: 蘇); the Korean surname 소, which is romanized So; the Japanese surname 蘇, which is also romanized So; and the Filipino/Tagalog surname So. Also, the Filipino family name "Solon" is a Hispanicized version of So. The Solon clan coming from Cebu are famous for ...
Tao is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 陶 (Táo).It listed 31st in the Song-era Hundred Family Surnames poem.. Tao is not to be confused with the Vietnamese surname Tào, derived from the Chinese surname Cao (chữ Hán: 曹) or the Japanese surname Tao (田尾), notably the surname of ski jumper Katsushi Tao (田尾 克史, born 1963) and baseball player Yasushi Tao (田尾 ...