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Yuan (袁, Mandarin pronunciation: ⓘ) is a Chinese surname ranked 37th in China by population in 2019. [1] [2] In Standard Chinese, the surname is transliterated Yuán (hanyu pinyin) or Yüen 2" ().
The ruling family of Northern Wei changed their surname from Tuoba (拓拔) to Yuan during the Change of Xianbei names to Han names. [1] According to a 2013 study, it was the 384th-most common surname, shared by 92,000 people or 0.0069% of the population, with the province with the most being Henan. [2]
Name Origin Total Number (2000) % (Chinese population) Character(s) Pinyin Other Forms Notes Trad. Simp. 1 Tan: Hokkien Teochew Hainanese: 237,800 9.5 陳: 陈: Chén: Chan for Cantonese, Chin for Hakka: 2 Lim: Hokkien Teochew Hainanese Hakka: 166,000 6.6 林: Lín: Lam or Lum for Cantonese: 3 Lee: Hokkien Teochew Cantonese Hainanese Hakka ...
Yuan (surname), the transliteration of a number of Chinese family names (e.g. 袁, 元, 苑, 原, 源, 爰, 遠) Yuan Haowen (元好問; 1190–1257), Chinese poet, author, and official; Thai Yuan, a people of Northern Thailand Yuan language, commonly known as Northern Thai language, language of the Thai Yuan people
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
Chinese surname is patrilinear where the father's surname is passed on to his children, but more recently some people have opted to use both parents' surnames; although this practice has increased in recent times, it is still relatively uncommon in China, with those who adopted both parents' surnames numbering at only 1.1 million in 2018 (up ...
The Manchu rulers incorporated Inner Asian polities into their empire, and Wei Yuan, a statecraft scholar, distinguished the new territories from Zhongguo, which he defined as the 17 provinces of "China proper" plus the Manchu homelands in the Northeast. By the late 19th century, the term had emerged as a common name for the whole country.
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