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Jian Yong (簡雍) (fl. 180s–210s), counselor of Liu Bei in the Late Eastern Han dynasty; Jianzhi (簡之), courtesy name of Yao Silian (姚思廉; died 637), official of the Chinese dynasties Sui dynasty and Tang dynasty; Sir Yuet-keung Kan GBE JP (Chinese: 簡悅強, 1913–2012), Hong Kong banker, politician and lawyer
The jian (Mandarin Chinese:, Chinese: 劍, English approximation: / dʒ j ɛ n / jyehn, Cantonese:) is a double-edged straight sword used during the last 2,500 years in China. The first Chinese sources that mention the jian date to the 7th century BCE, during the Spring and Autumn period, [1] one of the earliest specimens being the Sword of Goujian.
Jian Yang (politician) (born c. 1961), China-born New Zealand politician; Jian Yang (geneticist), statistical geneticist, Ruth Stephens Gani Medalist; Yin Jian (born 1978) is a double Olympic medal winning Chinese sailor. Yin Jian (Communist leader), early member of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the 28 Bolsheviks (1904–1937)
The character jian (監/监) is usually read as jiān, but is read as the less-commonly encountered pronunciation jiàn when used in the name Jianli. [3] [4] Jianli center city name is Rongcheng (容城 镇), the native people prefer to call Chengguan.
Jiang (Chinese: 江; Jyutping: Gong 1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kang, also romanized Chiang, Kong, Kang) is a Chinese surname, accounting for 0.26% of the Han Chinese population. It is the 52nd most common Chinese surname and is the 141st surname listed in the Hundred Family Surnames poem, contained in the line 江童顏郭 (Jiāng, Tóng, Yán, Guō).
As a surname, Chien is the Wade–Giles romanisation of a number of surnames spelled Jian in Hanyu Pinyin, as well as a variant spelling of surnames spelled Qian in Pinyin (Ch'ien in Wade Giles): [1] [2] Jiǎn (簡; 简), adopted as a surname by some descendants of Xu Juju , who was later named Xu Jianpo (續簡伯).
The surname 許 / 许 Xǔ has multiple theories regarding its origin.. One of the more credible ones states that the surname Xu originated from the feudal state of Xu in the area of Xǔchāng, now known as Jian'an District in Xuchang City, [1] of present-day Henan, during the Zhou dynasty.
The national pronunciation approved by the Commission on the Unification of Pronunciation was later customarily called the Old National Pronunciation (老國音). Although declared to be based on Beijing pronunciation, it was actually a hybrid of northern and southern pronunciations. The types of tones were specified, but not the tone values.