Written Chinese names begin with surnames, unlike the Western tradition in which surnames are written last. Around 2,000 Han Chinese surnames are currently...

common Chinese surnames in the People's Republic of China (Hong Kong, Macau, and Mainland China), the Republic of China (Taiwan), and the Chinese diaspora...

The surname Ān is a Chinese surname (Chinese: 安; pinyin: Ān) which literally means "peace", "tranquility", or "Agriculture". It also serves as an abbreviation...

A Chinese compound surname is a Chinese surname using more than one character. Many of these compound surnames derive from Zhou dynasty Chinese noble...

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...

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...

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...

cultural hero, who is considered in Chinese mythology to be the ancestor of all Han Chinese. The legend behind the Jin surname is as follows: The Yellow Emperor's...

is an East Asian surname of Chinese origin which has many variant spellings and transliterations. It is a transcription of 邓 (simplified Chinese character)...

the pinyin romanization of the surname pronounced in Standard Chinese as "Mò" and in Cantonese as "Mok6". The surname is often romanized as Mok where...

name of a Chinese dynasty, the Song dynasty, written with the same character. In 2019, it was the 24th most common surname in Mainland China. The first...

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...

of people with surname Yu List of common Chinese surnames Chinese name You Yu (Korean name) 袁义达, 张诚 (2002). 中国姓氏: 群体遗传和人口分布. East China Normal University...

Look up 麥 in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mài is a Chinese surname. It is commonly transliterated as Mak in Hong Kong, based on the Cantonese pronunciation...

two-character Chinese family names; most Chinese family names consist of only a single character. It is an occupational surname, literally meaning "control" (sī)...

Pu is the Pinyin transcription of a number of distinct Chinese surnames, including: Chinese: 蒲; pinyin: Pú; Cantonese Yale: Pòuh; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Phô, meaning...

romanization of the common Chinese surname 王 (Wáng). It is currently the most common surname in Mainland China, one of the most common surnames in Asia, with more...

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...

(traditional Chinese: 鄺; simplified Chinese: 邝; pinyin: kuàng; Wade–Giles: k'uang; Jyutping: Kwong3) is a Chinese surname that originated from central China. Although...

Láng is a surname of Manchu-Chinese origin (Chinese: 郎; pinyin: Láng). It was an official title in imperial times, meaning "minister" or "councillor"....

romanization of a few Chinese surnames. It includes 龍 / 龙, which means "dragon" in Chinese, ranking number 80 on the list of common Chinese surnames in 2006, up...

Chu is the pinyin romanization of several different Chinese surnames, which including 楚 Chǔ, 儲/储 Chǔ, 褚 Chǔ, 觸/触 Chù, etc. In the Wade–Giles romanization...

Lin ([lǐn]; Chinese: 林; pinyin: Lín) is the Mandarin romanization of the Chinese surname written 林, which has many variations depending on the language...

Huang (/ˈhwɑːŋ/; traditional Chinese: 黃; simplified Chinese: 黄) is a Chinese surname. While Huáng is the pinyin romanization of the word, it may also...

Ma (simplified Chinese: 马; traditional Chinese: 馬; pinyin: Mǎ) is a Chinese family name. The surname literally means "horse". As of 2006, it ranks as...

劉 / 刘 (/ljoʊ/ or /ljuː/) is an East Asian surname. pinyin: Liú in Mandarin Chinese, Lau4 in Cantonese. It is the family name of the Han dynasty emperors...

Chao is a surname in various cultures. It is the Pinyin spelling of two Chinese surnames (晁 and 巢), the Wade–Giles spelling of two others (趙 or the much...

of several Chinese family names, including 薄 Bó, 柏 Bó/Bǎi, 波 Bō, 伯 Bó, etc. Among these names, 柏 is the 213th most common surname in China at present...

dictionary. Kang (康, pinyin: Kāng) is a Chinese surname. It is the 88th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem. Kang Senghui (died 280), Buddhist monk...

(simplified Chinese: 饶; traditional Chinese: 饒; pinyin: Ráo; Wade–Giles: Jao) is a Chinese family name. It can also be spelled as "Yow" or "Yaw". The surname Rao...