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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 ...
The Chinese expression "Three Zhang Four Li" (simplified Chinese: 张三李四; traditional Chinese: 張三李四; pinyin: Zhāng Sān Lǐ Sì) is used to mean "anyone" or "everyone", [4] but the most common surnames are currently Wang in mainland China [5] and Chen in Taiwan. [6]
Chinese surnames are used by Han Chinese and Sinicized ethnic groups in Greater China, Korea, Vietnam and among overseas Chinese communities around the world such as Singapore and Malaysia. Written Chinese names begin with surnames, unlike the Western tradition in which surnames are written last. Around 2,000 Han Chinese surnames are currently ...
List of people with the Chinese family name Liu; Liǔ; Loi (surname) Long (Chinese surname) Looi; Lou (surname 楼) Lou (surname 娄) Lu (surname 盧) Lu (surname 祿) Lu (surname 蘆) Lu (surname 路) Lu (surname 逯) Lu (surname 陸) Lu (surname 魯) Lu (surname 鹿) Lu (surname) Lü (surname) Luan (surname) Lui (surname) Luo (surname) Luò ...
Download QR code; Print/export ... Lists of East Asian surnames include common Chinese, Japanese, and Korean surnames, or ... or family names. List of common Chinese ...
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 ...
Lan (surname 兰) Lan (surname 蓝) Lang (Chinese surname) Lei (surname) Leng (surname) Li (surname 李) Li (surname 利) Li (surname 厲) Li (surname 栗) Li (surname 酈) Lí (surname 黎) Liang (surname) Liao (surname) Lin (surname) Linghu; Liǔ; Liu (surname 留) Long (Chinese surname) Lou (surname 楼) Lou (surname 娄) Lu (surname 盧) Lu ...
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