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Xin (Wade–Giles: Hsin) is the romanization of several Chinese surnames including Xīn 辛, Xīn 新 and Xìn 信. Xīn 辛 is the commonest among these; it is the 379th surname in the Hundred Family Surnames .
西 (Xī; see Chinese Wikipedia article) 席 (Xí; see Chinese Wikipedia article) 習 / 习 (Xí; see Chinese Wikipedia article) This is the most common surname romanized "Xi", making up approximately 0.01% of the population of Mainland China. 隰 (Xí) 郤 (Xì; see Chinese Wikipedia article) 郗 (Xī; see Chinese Wikipedia article)
Xu Changsheng (徐常胜), a Chinese computer scientist who is a professor at the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Madame Huarui or Consort Xu (徐惠妃) (c. 940 – 976), a concubine of Later Shu 's emperor Meng Chang during imperial China's Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
The surname 許 / 许 Xǔ has multiple theories regarding its origin.. One of the more credible ones states that the surname Xu originated from the feudal state of Xu in the area of Xǔchāng, now known as Jian'an District in Xuchang City, [1] of present-day Henan, during the Zhou dynasty.
Chinese names are personal names used by individuals from Greater China and other parts of the Sinophone world. Sometimes the same set of Chinese characters could be chosen as a Chinese name, a Hong Kong name, a Japanese name, a Korean name, a Malaysian Chinese name, or a Vietnamese name, but they would be spelled differently due to their varying historical pronunciation of Chinese characters.
Xiong's literal meaning is "bear".In ancient China, it was used as a clan name by a branch of the Mi (), the royal family of the state of Chu.As recorded by Sima Qian, they claimed descent from Zhuanxu, a son of the Yellow Emperor in Chinese mythology, and Yuxiong (鬻熊), a tutor of the King Wen of Zhou in the 11th century BC.
Sichuanese Pinyin is based on Hanyu Pinyin, the only Chinese romanization system officially instructed within the People's Republic of China, for convenience amongst users. However, Hanyu Pinyin is unable to match the phonology of Sichuanese with complete precision, especially in the case for the Minjiang dialect , as there are many differences ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Mandarin on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Mandarin in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.