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Xiang is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surnames: Xiàng (Chinese: 向; Xiàng ⓘ) and Xiāng (Chinese: 相). It means “to go forward” It originated from several sources. First, from Xiang, an ancient state (located in Shandong province), destroyed in the early Spring and Autumn period. [1]
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Xiang Chinese on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Xiang Chinese in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Xiang or Hsiang (Chinese: 湘; Changsha Xiang: [sian˧ y˦˩], [1] Mandarin: [ɕi̯aŋ˥ y˨˩˦]), also known as Hunanese, is a group of linguistically similar and historically related Sinitic languages, spoken mainly in Hunan province but also in northern Guangxi and parts of neighboring Guizhou, Guangdong, Sichuan, Jiangxi and Hubei provinces.
Chinese names also form the basis for many common Cambodian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese surnames, and to an extent, Filipino surnames in both translation and transliteration into those languages. The conception of China as consisting of the "old hundred families" (Chinese: 老百姓; pinyin: Lǎo Bǎi Xìng; lit.
[citation needed] Chiang Kai-shek and Sun Yat-sen were also from southern China, and this is reflected in their conventional English names reflecting Cantonese pronunciations for their given names, and differing from their pinyin spellings Jiǎng Jièshí and Sūn Yìxiān. One consequence of this is that China does not have a well-developed ...
It is the 133rd name in the Hundred Family Surnames poem. During the Chu–Han Contention, many people surnamed Ji (籍) changed their surname to Xi (席) because of naming taboo of Xiang Yu, the Hegemon-King of Western Chu, whose given name was Ji (籍).
Xiang Huaicheng (项怀诚), Chinese economist and former minister of finance of China; Jing Xiang (项晶), Chinese German actress; Xiang Liang (項梁), rebel leader in the Qin dynasty; Xiang Shengmo (項聖謨), Chinese painter in the Ming Dynasty; Xiang Yu (項羽), prominent warlord in the late Qin dynasty; Xiang Zhuang (項莊), a younger ...
Since doubled characters are considered diminutives in Chinese, many girls also receive names including a doubled pair of characters or two characters with identical pronunciation. A famous exception to this generally feminine practice is Yo-Yo Ma. Apart from generational names, siblings' names are frequently related in other ways as well.