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Shanghai is a seat of two members (Fudan University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University) of the C9 League, an alliance of elite Chinese universities offering comprehensive and leading education, [220] and these two universities are ranked consistently in the Asia top 10, [221] [222] and in the global top 100 research comprehensive universities ...
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 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]
This obsolete Japanese name for China is believed to have derived from a kun'yomi reading of the Chinese compound 諸越 Zhūyuè or 百越 Baiyue as "all the Yue" or "the hundred (i.e., myriad, various, or numerous) Yue," which was an ancient Chinese name for the societies of the regions that are now southern China.
The verb "shanghai" joined the lexicon with "crimping" and "sailor thieves" in the 1850s, possibly because Shanghai was a common destination of the ships with abducted crews. [1] [2] The term has since expanded to mean "kidnapped" or "induced to do something by means of fraud or coercion". [3]
Xu (Chinese: 徐; pinyin: Xú; Wade–Giles: Hsü 2; Jyutping: Ceoi 4) is a Chinese-language surname. In the Wade-Giles system of romanization , it is spelled as " Hsu ", which is commonly used in Taiwan or overseas Chinese communities.
Within the Chinese treaty ports, it was applied specifically to an embanked quay which ran along the shore. [2] The Chinese name for the Bund is unrelated in origin: it literally means "outer bank", and distinguishes this part of the riverfront from the "inner bank" adjacent to the old city of Shanghai.
The Chinese surname meaning "thunder" is spelled in Vietnamese as Lôi (IPA:, that being the Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation of the original Chinese character). [3] Loi is a surname found in Punjab, it is a common Sikh Jatt surname used by farmers/landowners. The surname Loi only belongs to the Jatt caste within the Sikh and Punjabi community.