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Gui (traditional Chinese: 媯 / 嬀; simplified Chinese: 妫; pinyin: Guī; Wade–Giles: Kuei 1) is an ancient Chinese surname. It was the xing surname of the rulers of the State of Chen and of Tian Qi. The Gui (媯) clan was said to have descended from the legendary sage king Emperor Shun.
During the earliest Chinese antiquity, Chinese society focused on women. Family names often passed from women to their children. Because of this phenomenon, these eight surnames have a component of their hanzi representing the character woman (女). [1] [4] As of 2019, very few people had one of these surnames as a family name. [2]
Chinese surnames have a history of over 3,000 years. Chinese mythology, however, reaches back further to the legendary figure Fuxi (with the surname Feng), who was said to have established the system of Chinese surnames to distinguish different families and prevent marriage of people with the same family names. [8]
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 ...
A Chinese compound surname is a Chinese surname using more than one character. Many of these compound surnames derive from Zhou dynasty Chinese noble and official titles, professions, place names and other areas, to serve a purpose. Some are originally from various tribes that lived in ancient China, while others were created by joining two one ...
Ouyang (traditional Chinese: 歐陽; simplified Chinese: 欧阳; pinyin: Ōuyáng; Zhuyin Fuhao: ㄡㄧㄤˊ) is a Chinese surname. It is the most common two-character Chinese compound surname , being the only two-character name of the 400 most common Chinese surnames, according to a 2013 study.
Later on, the Peng surname was divided into the surname of Vu, and the Cao surname was divided into the surname of Zhu and the surname of Pu. Therefore, the eight surnames of Zhurong were formed: 己, 斯, 彭, 秃, 먹용, 曹, 斟, 芈. There is also a theory that the surname of Ji was divided into the surname of Dong.
Jí is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written 姞 in Chinese character.It is romanized as Chi in Wade–Giles, and Gat in Cantonese. [1] One of the Eight Great Surnames of Chinese Antiquity, Ji 姞 is an uncommon surname today.