Cáo 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"...
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Cao is a Vietnamese surname. The name is transliterated as Gao in Chinese and Go in Korean. It is unrelated to the Chinese surname Cao, which is transliterated...
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Cao (Chinese surname) (曹) Cao (Vietnamese surname) Cao (footballer, born 1968), Portuguese footballer Cao Cao (died 220), founder of Cao Wei, China Cao...
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Cao Yu (Chinese: 曹禺; Wade–Giles: Tsʻao Yü, September 24, 1910 – December 13, 1996) was a Chinese playwright, often regarded as one of China's most important...
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simplified Chinese: 司马; traditional Chinese: 司馬; pinyin: Sīmǎ; Wade–Giles: Ssu-ma) is a Chinese family name. It is one of the rare two-character Chinese family...
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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...
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Wei (Chinese: 魏) was one of the major dynastic states in China during the Three Kingdoms period. The state was established in 220 by Cao Pi based upon...
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spelling of two additional Chinese surnames (曹 Cáo and 周 Zhōu). It is also a Galician and Portuguese surname. This surname is written with a character...
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Written Chinese names begin with surnames, unlike the Western tradition in which surnames are written last. Around 2,000 Han Chinese surnames are currently...
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East Asian surname of Chinese origin which has many variant spellings and transliterations. It is a transcription of 邓 (simplified Chinese character)...
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The Eight surnames that came after the Zhurong tribe, according to the Guoyu, a historical Chinese text, are Ji, Dong, Peng, Tu, Wei, Cao, Zhen, and...
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Yan is a surname in several languages and the pinyin romanization for several Chinese surnames, including "严 (嚴)", "晏 (晏)", "偃 (偃)", "颜 (顏)", "言 (言)"...
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Wanchun (b. 1961), Chinese politician Mao Chi-kuo (b. 1948), a Republic of China politician Mao Jie (d. 216), a minister to Cao Cao Mao Sidi, pseudonym...
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three major Chinese empires historically. The "First Chinese Empire" (中華第一帝國) included the Qin dynasty, the Western Han, the Eastern Han, the Cao Wei, the...
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one of several Chinese surnames. Since the syllable Cheng represents different sounds in Hanyu pinyin and the Wade–Giles systems of Chinese romanization...
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Vietnamese surname Tào, derived from the Chinese surname Cao (chữ Hán: 曹) or the Japanese surname Tao (田尾), notably the surname of ski jumper Katsushi Tao (田尾 克史...
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relatively uncommon surname in modern China, largely because its bearers often adopted the names of their states and fiefs as new surnames. The character is...
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Guangsheng argued instead that Cao Rui was Yuan Xi's son. Cao Rui's reign was viewed in many different ways throughout Chinese history. He devoted many resources...
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pronunciation: [ɥɛ̌n] ) is a Chinese surname ranked 37th in China by population in 2019. In Standard Chinese, the surname is transliterated Yuán (hanyu...
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The State of Cao (simplified Chinese: 曹国; traditional Chinese: 曹國; pinyin: Cáoguó) was a vassal state in China during the Zhou Dynasty (1046–221 BC)....
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romanization of two Chinese surnames: Cao and Tao.[citation needed] As of 2019, there were 71 people in Denmark with the surname Thau. Most of them are...
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romanization of the Chinese surname written 荀 as a Chinese character. It is romanized Hsün in Wade–Giles. Xun is the 201st surname in the Song dynasty...
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Huang (/ˈhwɑːŋ/; traditional Chinese: 黃; simplified Chinese: 黄) is a Chinese surname. While Huáng is the pinyin romanization of the word, it may also...
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Chinese surnames: 朱, 祝, 竺, 猪 and 諸. The most prominent of the five, Zhu (朱), is the 17th name in the Hundred Family Surnames poem and was the surname...
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Hundred Family Surnames (Chinese: 百家姓), commonly known as Bai Jia Xing, also translated as Hundreds of Chinese Surnames, is a classic Chinese text composed...
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Fu (Mandarin: 傅 Fù; Hokkien: Poh) is an ancient Han Chinese surname of imperial origin which is at least 4,000 years old. The great-great-great-grandson...
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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...
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Guo (redirect from Guō (surname))
"Guo", written in Chinese: 郭, is one of the most common Chinese surnames and means "the wall that surrounds a city" in Chinese. It can also be transliterated...
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Family Surnames poem. As of 2018, it is the 269th most common surname in China. Bian He, discoverer of the Heshibi Empress Dowager Bian to Cao Cao Empress...
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Yíng (redirect from Yíng (Chinese surname))
Yíng (Chinese: 嬴) is an ancient Chinese surname. It was the noble house name of the Qin state during the Eastern Zhou dynasty, and the royal name of the...
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