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Chinese women generally retain their maiden name and use their name unchanged after marriage, but in modern times in some communities, some women may choose to attach their husband's surname to the front. [21] Chinese surname is patrilinear where the father's surname is passed on to his children, but more recently some people have opted to use ...
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]
Chen is the 5th most common surname in mainland China (around 70 million) and 4th most common in the world (around 80–100 million, including all its variants like Chan, Tan, Tran). A 2013 study found that it was the 5th most common surname, shared by 61,300,000 people or 4.610% of the population, with the province with the most being Guangdong.
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As a Chinese surname, Chin could originate from numerous Chinese characters including the following, listed by their spelling in Mandarin Pinyin: [1]. Chen (traditional Chinese: 陳; simplified Chinese: 陈), spelled Chin based on its pronunciation in multiple varieties of Chinese including Hakka (Hagfa Pinyim: Cin 2; IPA: /t͡sʰɨn¹¹/).
Ye (traditional Chinese: 葉; simplified Chinese: 叶; pinyin: Yè) is a Chinese-language surname. It is listed 257th in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames, [1] and is the 43rd most common surname in China, with a population of 5.8 million as of 2008 and 2019. [2] [3]
Yong (雍) is a Chinese surname. [2] It is Romanized as Yung in Wade-Giles, Iong in Min Nan and Yung in Cantonese. [3] According to a 2013 study, it was the 339th most common name in China; it was shared by 139,000 people, or 0.01% of the population, being most popular in Sichuan. [4] It is the 304th name in the Hundred Family Surnames poem. [5 ...
Cen is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written 岑 in Chinese character. It is romanized Ts'en in Wade–Giles, and variously as Sam, Sum, Sham, Shum in Cantonese, Gim, Khim, Chim in Taiwanese Hokkien and Chen in other pinyin forms. Cen is listed 67th in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames. [1]