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After the demise of the Qing dynasty, some of the descendants of Manchu clan Šumuru sinicized their clan name to the Chinese surnames Shu (舒), Xu (徐) or Xiao (蕭). [4] A 1977 study found that it was the 20th most common Chinese surname in the world. It is said to be the 30th most common in China. [5]
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]
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 ...
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.
Pages in category "Chinese-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 349 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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]
In some cases, the surname is an Americanization of a similar-sounding Ashkenazic Jewish surname. [1] In England and Scotland, the name is a topographic name for someone who lived by a copse or thicket. [1] This name is derived from the Middle English schage, shage, schawe, and shawe, from the Old English sceaga meaning "dweller by the wood".