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Lan is a personal name, frequently used in Chinese and Vietnamese contexts as a feminine given name, which means "orchid" in Vietnamese. In Vietnamese, "Lân" with the accent denotes a masculine given name, which refers to Kỳ Lân , a mythical creature that appears only to protect the noble.
Lan is the Mandarin pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname written 兰 in simplified Chinese and 蘭 in traditional Chinese.As of 2008, it is the 154th most common surname in China, shared by 840,000 people. [1]
Lan is the Mandarin pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname written 蓝 in simplified Chinese and 藍 in traditional Chinese. It is romanized Lam or Nam in Hakka . Lan is listed 131st in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames . [ 1 ]
Lan (surname 蓝), a Chinese surname; Lan (surname 兰), a Chinese surname; Lan (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) Lan (tribe), ethnic group in Han dynasty China; David Lan (born 1952), South African-born British playwright; Donald Lan (1930–2019), American politician; Phạm Chi Lan, Vietnamese economist
A 2010 study by Baiju Shah & al data-mined the Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card recipients in the province of Ontario for a particularly Chinese-Canadian name list. Ignoring potentially non-Chinese spellings such as Lee (49,898 total), [24]: Table 1 they found that the most common Chinese names in Ontario were: [24]
Lan Fo'an (Chinese: 蓝佛安; born June 1962) is a Chinese politician who is currently serving as the Minister of Finance and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Secretary of the Ministry of Finance. He previously served as the CCP Secretary of Shanxi province.
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.
Most of the Manchu clans took on their Han surnames after the demise of the Qing dynasty.Several clans took on Han identity as early as in the Ming dynasty period. The surnames were derived from the Chinese meaning of their original clan name, Chinese transliteration of the clan's name, the possessed territories, generation and personal names of the clansmen and also inspired by the surnames ...