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The origin of the name "dabakan," is said to have been borrowed and adapted from the Middle East. Dabakan is derived from the word, dbak meaning to "hit, strike, or beat," meaning that the dabakan is something upon which you hit.
Ensembles didn't necessary have to have five instruments like formal performances: they could be composed of only four instruments (three gandingan gongs, a kulintang, an agung, and a dabakan), three instruments (a kulintang, a dabakan, and either an agung or three gandingan gongs) or simply just one instrument (kulintang solo). [12]
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.
The article provided direct translations of the meanings of Chinese words, leading to the creation of potential new names for individuals of Chinese descent. For instance, individuals bearing the name Kok ( 國 ), which signifies "country", might possess names with the Indonesian translation " negara ".
In contrast to the relative paucity of Chinese surnames, given names can theoretically include any of the Chinese language's 100,000 characters [1] and contain almost any meaning. It is considered disrespectful in China to name a child after an older relative, and both bad practice and disadvantageous for the child's fortune to copy the names ...
Cen is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written 岑 in Chinese character.It is romanized Ts'en in Wade–Giles, and variously as Sam, Sum, Sham, Shum in Cantonese, Gim, Khim, Chim in Taiwanese Hokkien and Chen in other pinyin forms.
The name Đặng is transliterated as Deng in Chinese and Deung in Korean, all come from the word 鄧. It may originate from: State of Deng, a small state in Spring and Autumn period in China; The Clan of Man (曼姓), the ruling clan of State of Deng. Later, they used state's name (Deng) as their surname. Huang Di, branch of Qi (祁) clan
His given name Gouwutu, meant nursed (穀 gòu, milk) by a tiger (於菟 wūtú, tiger) in the Chu language. Dou Gouwutu grew up to become a general and the Prime Minister of Chu . His descendants adopted Ban (meaning "stripes", an allusion to tiger's stripes) as their surname.