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On the other hand, most who have Chinese ancestors who came to the Philippines prior to 1898 usually have multiple-syllable Chinese surnames such as Gokongwei, Ongpin, Pempengco, Yuchengco, Teehankee, and Yaptinchay among such others. These were originally full Chinese names which were transliterated in Spanish orthography and adopted as surnames.
The remaining eight of the top ten most common Chinese surnames are Zhang, Liu, Chen, Yang, Huang, Zhao, Wu and Zhou. [4] Two distinct types of Chinese surnames existed in ancient China, namely xing ( Chinese: 姓; pinyin: xìng) ancestral clan names and shi ( Chinese: 氏; pinyin: shì) branch lineage names.
Li (surname 李) 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. [1] Li is one of the most common surnames in Asia, shared by 92.76 million people in China, [2] and more than 100 million in Asia. [3] It is the second-most common surname in China as of ...
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]
The Hundred Family Surnames ( Chinese: 百家姓 ), commonly known as Bai Jia Xing, [1] also translated as Hundreds of Chinese Surnames, [2] is a classic Chinese text composed of common Chinese surnames. An unknown author compiled the book during the Song dynasty (960–1279). [3] The book lists 507 surnames. [3] Of these, 441 are single ...
Ban (Chinese surname) Bao (surname) Bei (surname) Bi (surname) Bian (surname) Bing (Chinese surname) Bo (Chinese surname) Bong (surname) Buddhist surname.
Zheng (simplified Chinese: 郑; traditional Chinese: 鄭; pinyin: Zhèng; Wade–Giles: Cheng 4, ⓘ) is a Chinese surname. It is the 7th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem. In 2006, Zheng ranked 21st in China's list of top 100 most common surnames .
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 ...