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  2. Jian (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Yin Jian (born 1978) is a double Olympic medal winning Chinese sailor. Yin Jian (Communist leader), early member of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the 28 Bolsheviks (1904–1937) Yu Jian (born 1954), Chinese poet, writer and documentary film director; Zhan Jian (born 1982), Chinese-born Singaporean table tennis player; Zhang Jian ...

  3. Jian (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Jiǎn (traditional Chinese: 簡; simplified Chinese: 简) is a Han surname meaning "bamboo slip" or "simple". It was the 382th surname listed on the Hundred Family Surnames . There are more people in Taiwan with this surname than any single province in Mainland China .

  4. 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.

  5. Chien (name) - Wikipedia

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    Additionally some bearers of this surname changed their surname to the Jiǎn described above, which is homophonous in Mandarin Chinese, though not in other varieties of Chinese. Qián ( 錢 ; 钱 ), literally meaning "money", also originated as an occupational surname, said to have been adopted by a holder of the post of treasurer ...

  6. Muhammad Ma Jian - Wikipedia

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    Muhammad Ma Jian (Chinese: 马坚; Arabic: محمد ماكين الصيني Muḥammad Mākīn as-Ṣīnī; [1] 1906–1978) was a Hui-Chinese Islamic scholar and translator, known for translating the Qur'an into Chinese and stressing compatibility between Marxism and Islam.

  7. Thousand Character Classic - Wikipedia

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    The Thousand Character Classic (Chinese: 千字文; pinyin: Qiānzì wén), also known as the Thousand Character Text, is a Chinese poem that has been used as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children from the sixth century onward. It contains exactly one thousand characters, each used only once, arranged into 250 lines of four ...

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  9. Jiāng (surname 江) - Wikipedia

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    Jiang (Chinese: 江; Jyutping: Gong 1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kang, also romanized Chiang, Kong, Kang) is a Chinese surname, accounting for 0.26% of the Han Chinese population. It is the 52nd most common Chinese surname and is the 141st surname listed in the Hundred Family Surnames poem, contained in the line 江童顏郭 (Jiāng, Tóng, Yán, Guō).