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  2. Yuan (surname) - Wikipedia

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    An alternate, much less widely accepted theory, suggests that the surname Yuan is derived from Xuanyuan (軒轅 or 玄袁), the clan name of the Yellow Emperor. After his death, the Yellow Emperor's estates came to be called Yuanyi (袁邑), and his descendants took their place of birth as a surname.

  3. Yuen - Wikipedia

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    Yuen is a Cantonese Chinese surname, which can refer to: 袁, 阮, 元, 源, 原 and 苑 Yuan (surname), the Pinyin transliteration of the Han Chinese surnames 袁, 元, 源, 原 and 苑; Ruan (surname), the Pinyin transliteration of the Han Chinese surname 阮; Chinese yuan, the basic unit of currency in China

  4. Yīn (surname 陰) - Wikipedia

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    Yīn (trad. 陰, simp. 阴) is a Chinese surname.It is Romanized as Im in Min Nan and Yam in Cantonese. [2] According to a 2013 study, it was the 390th most common name in China; it was shared by 39,000 people, or 0.0067% of the population, being most popular in Shanxi. [3]

  5. Ruan (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Ruan (Chinese: 阮; pinyin: Ruǎn; Wade–Giles: Juan, ⓘ) is a Chinese surname.. The Taiwanese Hokkien version or is transcribed Oán and Ńg in Pe̍h-ōe-jī.The Cantonese version is romanized Jyun2 in the Jyutping system or Yún in the Yale system, or more commonly Yuen or Un (the latter is typical in Macau).

  6. Yún (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Yun is the surname of many Tümeds, a Chinese-speaking Mongol ethnic group. [5] Some Tumeds had the surname "Yun" during China's Qing Dynasty (1644–1912), and claim even more ancient origins. However, adoption of the surname greatly increased during the 1920s, and especially after the 1949 revolution , which increased Mongols' access to ...

  7. Acrostic (puzzle) - Wikipedia

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    Trans-O-Grams were often themed puzzles, with clues related to the quote. The name Duo-Crostic was used by the Los Angeles Times for puzzles by Barry Tunick and Sylvia Bursztyn. Charles Preston created Quote-Acrostics for The Washington Post. Charles Duerr, who died in 1999, authored many "Dur-acrostic" books and was a contributor of acrostics ...

  8. Nguyen - Wikipedia

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    It was the 41st most common surname in Norway in 2020 [11] and tops the foreign name list in the Czech Republic. [ 12 ] In the United States, Nguyen is the 38th most-common surname and is shared by more than 437,000 individuals, [ 13 ] according to the 2010 Census ; it was the 57th and 229th most-common surname, respectively, in the 2000 [ 14 ...

  9. Los Angeles Times - Wikipedia

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    The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. [3] Based in the Greater Los Angeles area city of El Segundo since 2018, [ 4 ] it is the sixth-largest newspaper in the nation and the largest in the Western United States with a print circulation of 118,760.