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The Chinese expression "Three Zhang Four Li" (simplified Chinese: 张三李四; traditional Chinese: 張三李四; pinyin: Zhāng Sān Lǐ Sì) is used to mean "anyone" or "everyone", [4] but the most common surnames are currently Wang in mainland China [5] and Chen in Taiwan. [6]
Chinese surnames have a history of over 3,000 years. Chinese mythology, however, reaches back further to the legendary figure Fuxi (with the surname Feng), who was said to have established the system of Chinese surnames to distinguish different families and prevent marriage of people with the same family names. [8]
Li or Lee (; 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]
Ban (Chinese surname) Bao (surname) Bei (surname) Bi (surname) Bian (surname) Bing (Chinese surname) Bo (Chinese surname) Bong (surname) Buddhist surname.
Ma ( simplified Chinese: 马; traditional Chinese: 馬; pinyin: Mǎ) is a Chinese family name. The surname literally means "horse". [ 1] As of 2006, it ranks as the 14th most common Chinese surname in mainland China. In 2019 it was the 13th most common surname in mainland China. [ 2]
Cao (Chinese surname) 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 " in Wade-Giles (Ts'ao), which is widely adopted in Taiwan, although the apostrophe is often omitted in practice. It is romanized " Cho ", " Tso ", and " Chaw " in ...
Lu (surname) Lu is the pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of several distinct Chinese surnames that are written with different characters in Chinese. Depending on the character, it may be spelled Lú, Lǔ, or Lù when pinyin tone diacritics are used. Lu 盧 and Lu 陸 are the most common: both are among the 100 most common surnames in China. [ 1]
Peng (surname) Peng ( Chinese: 彭; pinyin: Péng; alternative forms of romanization include Pang and Phang ( Cantonese, Hakka ), Pangestu or Pangestoe ( Indonesian ), and Bành ( Vietnamese )) is a common Chinese family name, ranking 35th most common in 2006. It is the 47th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.