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Xiao (/ ʃ aʊ /; [1] Chinese: 蕭) is a Chinese-language surname. In the Wade-Giles system of romanization , it is rendered as Hsiao , which is commonly used in Taiwan. It is also romanized as Siauw , Shiao , Siaw , Siew , Siow , Seow , Siu , Shiu or Sui , [ 2 ] as well as " Shaw " among overseas Chinese communities. [ 3 ]
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 ...
The surname stroke order (Chinese: 姓氏笔划排序) is a system for the collation of Chinese surnames.It arose as an impartial method of categorization of the order in which names appear in official documentation or in ceremonial procedure without any line of hierarchy.
Xiao (flute) (Chinese: 箫), a Chinese end-blown flute; Xiao (rank) (Chinese: 校), a rank used for field officers in the Chinese military; Xiao County (Chinese: 萧县), in Anhui, China; Xiao Mountain (Chinese: 崤山), a range of mountains in Henan, China, or the surrounding Xiao region; Xiao River (Chinese: 潇水), a tributary of the Xiang ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
Xia is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written 夏 in Chinese character. It is romanized Hsia in Wade–Giles, and Ha in Cantonese. Xia is the 154th surname in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames. [1] As of 2008, it is the 66th most common Chinese surname, shared by 3.7 million people. [2]