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Zhou (surname) Zhōu ( Chinese: 周; pinyin: Zhōu; Wade–Giles: Chou¹) is a Chinese-language surname. In places which use the Wade–Giles romanization such as Taiwan, Zhou is usually spelled as Chou, and it may also be spelled as Chiau, Chau, Chao, Chew, Chow, Chiu, Cho, Chu, Jhou, Jou, Djou, Jue, Jow, Joe, or Tseu, depending on regional ...
Ng (name) Ng (pronounced [ ŋ̍]; English approximation often / ɪŋ / ing or / ɛŋ / eng) is a Cantonese transliteration of the Chinese surnames 吳 / 吴 ( Mandarin Wú) and 伍 (Mandarin Wǔ ). Alternately, it is a common Hokkien transcription of the name 黃 / 黄 ( Pe̍h-ōe-jī: N̂ɡ, Mandarin Huáng ).
Zhang ( [ʈʂáŋ] ⓘ; traditional Chinese: 張; simplified Chinese: 张) is the third most common surname in China and Taiwan (commonly spelled as Chang in Taiwan), and it is one of the most common surnames in the world. [ 2][ 3] It is spoken in the first tone Zhāng. It is a surname that exists in many languages and cultures, corresponding ...
Xu ( Chinese: 徐; pinyin: Xú; Wade–Giles: Hsü2; Jyutping: Ceoi4) 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. It is different from Xu (surname 許), represented by a different character.
Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (a.k.a. Hubert Wolfstern, [3] Hubert B. Wolfe + 666 Sr., [4] Hubert Blaine Wolfe+585 Sr., [5] and Hubert Blaine Wolfe+590 Sr., [6] among others, 4 August 1914 – 24 October 1997) was a German-born American typesetter who held the record for the longest personal name ever used.
Yang, Yaung, Kaung ( Burmese) Yaj ( Hmong) Derivative (s) Dương, Yana, Saeyang, Yongki, Yoso, Yohan, Muljoto. Yang ( [jǎŋ]; simplified Chinese: 杨; traditional Chinese: 楊; pinyin: Yáng) is the transcription of a Chinese family name. It is the sixth most common surname in Mainland China. It is the 16th surname on the Hundred Family ...
Wang ( / wɑːŋ /) is the pinyin romanization of the common Chinese surnames 王 ( Wáng) and 汪 ( Wāng ). [a] It is currently the most common surname in Mainland China, one of the most common surnames in Asia, with more than 107 million in Asia. It is the 8th name listed in the famous Hundred Family Surnames. [2] [3]
Zhao (/ dʒ aʊ /; [1] traditional Chinese: 趙; simplified Chinese: 赵; pinyin: Zhào; Wade–Giles: Chao⁴) is a Chinese-language surname. [note 1] The name is first in the Hundred Family Surnames – the traditional list of all Chinese surnames – because it was the emperor's surname of the Song dynasty (960–1279) when the list was compiled.