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雷
Lei is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname (''Léi''). It is the 69th name on the ''Hundred Family Surnames'' poem.K. S. Tom. 989(1989). Echoes from Old China: Life, Legends and Lore of the Middle Kingdom. University of Hawaii Press. . Additionally, the very common Chinese surname Li () is pronounced Lei in Standard Cantonese, and is sometimes romanized as "Lei", particularly among the Macanese. Romanization The surname is also romanized as Lui or Looi in Hokkien and Teochew; Lui, Looi, or Loi in Cantonese; Louie or Louis in Taishanese; Lūi in Gan. Sino-Xenic pronunciations include Lôi in Vietnamese; Roe () or Noe () in Korean; and Rai in Japanese. Distribution 雷 is the 79th-most-common surname in mainland China but not included among the 100 most common surnames on Taiwan. In the United States, Lei is an uncommon surname, ranking 14,849th during the 1990 census and 6,583rd during the year 2000 census.US Census Bureau. Op. cit. Public Broadcasting Servic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lui (surname)
Lui is a surname in various cultures. It may be a variant spelling of two Chinese surnames ( Léi and Lǚ), as well as an Italian surname. The surname Lui can also be found on various Pacific Islands. Origins Lui may be the spelling of various Chinese surnames, based on their pronunciation in different varieties of Chinese; they are listed below by their spelling in Hanyu Pinyin, which reflects the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation: * Léi (), meaning "thunder"; the spelling Lui is based on the Cantonese pronunciation (). The spelling Lui is common in Hong Kong, while other spellings of the same surname such as Loi and Louie are found in Macau and among overseas Chinese. * Lǚ (); nearly-homophonous with the above in Cantonese (; note the differing tone), and so also spelled Lui, Loi, or Louie. Lui is also an Italian surname, derived from the name of the month of July in the Eastern Lombard dialect spoken in Mantua and surroundings (compare Italian ). Statistics In Italy, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loi (surname)
Loi is a surname. It has various origins, including as a spelling of three Chinese surnames (), a traditional surname from Sardinia, and a surname in India from the word ''loi'' meaning "scheduled caste" in the Meitei language. Origins Loi may be the spelling of three Chinese surnames, based on their pronunciation in different varieties of Chinese; they are listed below by their spelling in Hanyu Pinyin, which reflects the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation: * Léi (), meaning "thunder"; the spelling Loi is based on the Cantonese pronunciation (). The spelling Loi is common in Macau, while other spellings of the same surname such as Lui and Louie are found in Hong Kong and among overseas Chinese. * Lǚ (); nearly-homophonous with the above in Cantonese (; note the differing tone), and so also spelled Loi, Lui, or Louie. * Lí (), a fossil word meaning "black" or "brown". The spelling Loi is based on the pronunciation in various dialects of Southern Min (e.g. Teochew Peng'im: ; IPA: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Looi
Looi is a surname. Origins Like many other similarly-spelled surnames (Lui, Loi, Louie, etc.), it can originate from either of two Chinese surnames which are almost homophonous in Cantonese, though pronounced distinctly in Mandarin: * Léi (), meaning "thunder" (). The spelling Looi might also originate from its pronunciation in various Southern Min dialects, e.g. Hokkien () or Chaoshan (Peng'im: ). * Lǚ (), a toponymic surname from the ancient state of Lü (; note the differing tone). The pronunciation in other varieties of Chinese is not similar to the surname meaning "thunder". As a Dutch surname, Looi originated both as shortened version of van de Looi with the ''tussenvoegsels'' dropped, and as a patronymic surname derived from the given name Looi. That given name is a regional hypocorism of various other given names: it may be short for Ludolf, or for Lodewijk in Groningen and the southern Netherlands, or for Eligius in Friesland. Alternative spellings include Looij. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noe (surname)
Noe is a surname in various European countries originating from the given name Noah, as well as a rare Korean surname meaning "thunder". Origins As a Dutch, English, French, and German surname, Noe is derived from the biblical given name Noah (Middle English and Latin ). Other surnames with the same derivation include the English variant Noy, as well as Noa and Nohe. The spelling Noè usually originates from the Italian form of the given name Noah, while the spelling Noé usually originates from the French form, but in many cases, descendants in other countries have dropped the diacritics. Occasionally, the ancestors of some modern-day bearers of the surname had instead derived it from the given name Noël, or as a toponymic surname from Noé, Haute-Garonne, France. Noah was not a common given name in medieval England when the surname first appeared there, and so Patrick Hanks suggests that the surname may have been used by descendants of people who were nicknamed Noah, for examp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Common Chinese Surnames
These are 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 by authoritative government or academic sources. Chinese names also form the basis for many common Cambodian, Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese surnames and to an extent, Filipino surnames in both translation and transliteration into those languages. The conception of China as consisting of the " old 100 families" () is an ancient and traditional one, the most notable tally being the Song-era ''Hundred Family Surnames'' (). Even today, the number of surnames in China is a little over 4,000, while the year 2000 US census found there are more than 6.2 million surnames altogetherWord, David L. & al"Demographic Aspects of Surnames from Census 2000". 26 June 2001. Accessed 3 February 2012. and that the number of surnames held by 100 or more Americans (per name) was just over 150,000.United States Census Bureau"Genealogy Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hundred Family Surnames
The ''Hundred Family Surnames'' (), commonly known as ''Bai Jia Xing'', also translated as ''Hundreds of Chinese Surnames'', is a classic Chinese text composed of common Chinese surnames. An unknown author compiled the book during the Song dynasty (960–1279).K. S. Tom. 989(1989). Echoes from Old China: Life, Legends and Lore of the Middle Kingdom p. 12. University of Hawaii Press. . The book lists 507 surnames. Of these, 441 are single-character surnames and 66 are double-character surnames. About 800 names have been derived from the original ones. In the dynasties following the Song, the 13th-century ''Three Character Classic'', the ''Hundred Family Surnames'', and the 6th-century ''Thousand Character Classic'' came to be known as ''San Bai Qian'' (Three, Hundred, Thousand), from the first character in their titles. They served as instructional books for children, becoming the almost universal introductory literary texts for students (almost exclusively boys) from elite b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Language
is spoken natively by about 128 million people, primarily by Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language. Japanese belongs to the Japonic or Japanese- Ryukyuan language family. There have been many attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as the Ainu, Austroasiatic, Koreanic, and the now-discredited Altaic, but none of these proposals has gained widespread acceptance. Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century AD recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial Old Japanese texts did not appear until the 8th century. From the Heian period (794–1185), there was a massive influx of Sino-Japanese vocabulary into the language, affecting the phonology of Early Middle Japanese. Late Middle Japanese (1185–1600) saw extensive grammatical changes and the first appearance of European loanwords. The basis of the standard dialect moved f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rai (surname)
Rai (Hindi: राय; Urdu: رائے; Bengali: রায়, Tulu: ರಾೀ, Nepali: राई)https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/soas_query.py?qs=rāˊjan&searchhws=yes is a historical surname in the Indian subcontinent. The Haryanvi variant is Rao. In Bihar title Rai is used by Bhumihar community. People * Jitendra Kumar Rai (born 1978), Cabinet Minister Bihar * A. N. Rai (born 1955), Indian academic administrator * Aanand L. Rai (born 1971), Indian film director and producer * Aaron Rai (born 1995), English golfer * Ade Rai (born 1970), Indonesian bodybuilder * Agansing Rai (1920–2000), Nepali recipient of the Victoria Cross * Aishwarya Rai (born 1973), Indian actress and former Miss World * Ajay Rai, Indian politician * Ajeet Rai (born 1999), New Zealand tennis player * Alisha Rai (born 1996), Nepali actress, model and dancer * Alisha Rai (author), American writer * Alka Rai, Indian politician * Amit Rai, Indian film director * Amrit Rai (–1996), Indian writer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korean Language
Korean ( South Korean: , ''hangugeo''; North Korean: , ''chosŏnmal'') is the native language for about 80 million people, mostly of Korean descent. It is the official and national language of both North Korea and South Korea (geographically Korea), but over the past years of political division, the two Koreas have developed some noticeable vocabulary differences. Beyond Korea, the language is recognised as a minority language in parts of China, namely Jilin Province, and specifically Yanbian Prefecture and Changbai County. It is also spoken by Sakhalin Koreans in parts of Sakhalin, the Russian island just north of Japan, and by the in parts of Central Asia. The language has a few extinct relatives which—along with the Jeju language (Jejuan) of Jeju Island and Korean itself—form the compact Koreanic language family. Even so, Jejuan and Korean are not mutually intelligible with each other. The linguistic homeland of Korean is suggested to be somewhere in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis (surname)
Louis is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Antoine Louis (1723–1792), French surgeon and physiologist * Arthur Louis (1945–2014, born as ''Louis Arthur Bulgin''), Jamaican-British musician * Errol Louis (born 1962), American journalist and television show host *Chris Louis (born 1969), English speedway rider * Christos Louis (born 1948), Greek molecular geneticist * Gaspard Louis, Haitian dancer and choreographer * Godfrey Louis, solid-state physicist *Jean Louis (1907–1997), French-born costume designer * Jefferson Louis (born 1979), English footballer * Joe Louis (1914–1981), professional name of American boxer and heavyweight champion Joseph Louis Barrow *Julia Louis-Dreyfus (born 1961), American actress, comedian, and producer * Lance Louis (born 1985), American football player * Laura Glen Louis, American author & poet, * Laurent Louis (born 1980), Belgian politician * Léopold Louis-Dreyfus (1833–1915), French businessman, founder of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roe (surname)
Roe is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alban Roe (1583–1642), English Benedictine martyr * Alliott Verdon Roe (1877–1958), British aircraft manufacturer * Allison Roe (born 1956), New Zealand marathon runner and politician * Anna Wang Roe (born 1959), American neuroscientist * Anne Roe (1904–1991), American clinical psychologist and researcher * Arthur Roe (footballer) (1892–1960), English football halfback * Arthur Roe (politician) (1878–1942), American politician and lawyer * Arthur Stanley Roe, medical doctor from Queensland, Australia * Brian Roe (1939–2014), English cricketer * Charles Roe (1715–1781), English industrialist * David Roe (born 1965), English snooker player * Edward Payson Roe (1838–1888), American novelist * Erica Roe (born 1957), Twickenham streaker * Sir Francis Roe (died 1620), Irish politician * Francis Asbury Roe (1823–1901), United States Navy admiral * James M. Roe (born 1943), American astronomer * Jane Roe (p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vietnamese Language
Vietnamese ( vi, tiếng Việt, links=no) is an Austroasiatic languages, Austroasiatic language originating from Vietnam where it is the national language, national and official language. Vietnamese is spoken natively by over 70 million people, several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. It is the native language of the Vietnamese people, Vietnamese (Kinh) people, as well as a second language, second language or First language, first language for List of ethnic groups in Vietnam, other ethnic groups in Vietnam. As a result of overseas Vietnamese, emigration, Vietnamese speakers are also found in other parts of Southeast Asia, East Asia, North America, Europe, and Australia (continent), Australia. Vietnamese has also been officially recognized as a minority language in the Czech Republic. Like many other languages in Southeast Asia and East Asia, Vietnamese is an analytic language with phonemic tone (linguistics), tone. It has head-initial directionali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
