Written Chinese names begin with surnames, unlike the Western tradition in which surnames are written last. Around 2,000 Han Chinese surnames are currently... 59 KB (6,661 words) - 18:37, 23 April 2024 |
lists of the most common Chinese surnames in China (People's Republic of China), Taiwan (Republic of China), and the Chinese diaspora overseas as provided... 192 KB (2,756 words) - 11:48, 18 April 2024 |
revoked the ban on the ethnic Chinese from speaking and learning Chinese in public. Using the original Chinese surnames is no longer a taboo but only... 75 KB (3,403 words) - 05:34, 28 April 2024 |
A Chinese compound surname is a Chinese surname using more than one character. Many of these compound surnames derive from Zhou dynasty Chinese noble... 15 KB (282 words) - 23:16, 28 April 2024 |
Li or Lee ([lì]; Chinese: 李; pinyin: Lǐ) is a common Chinese surname, it is the 4th name listed in the famous Hundred Family Surnames. Li is one of the... 20 KB (2,446 words) - 13:15, 19 April 2024 |
The surname An is a Chinese surname (Chinese: 安; pinyin: Ān) which literally means "peace" or "tranquility". It also serves as an abbreviation of Anxi... 6 KB (850 words) - 23:45, 18 October 2023 |
Han (simplified Chinese: 韩; traditional Chinese: 韓; pinyin: Hán) is a common Chinese surname. The spelling "Han" is based on China's pinyin system and... 8 KB (1,104 words) - 11:11, 7 March 2024 |
is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 曹 (Cáo). It is listed 26th in the Song-era Hundred Family Surnames poem. Cao is romanized as "Tsao" in... 12 KB (1,530 words) - 11:22, 7 February 2024 |
Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian provinces. The 俞 surname represents around 0.12% of China's population. Yu (Chinese: 俞; pinyin: Yú) is said to have been derived... 5 KB (671 words) - 07:49, 23 January 2023 |