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Guan (surname)
Guan may refer to any of at least four Chinese family names (all rendered in Cantonese as Kwan, or also in English as Kuan). The four names are as follows: Guān (關) The most famous of all the Guan surnames due to its association with the war deity Guan Yu, the Guan (關) family name came from Dongfu (董父) the descendant of ruler Shuan (叔安) in Chifeng in old Rehe Province. * Guwalgiya (瓜尔佳) family the Jurchen people of Jin dynasty Guān (官) Guan ( 官) is a Chinese family name, Guan, Kuan, Quan, Kwan in common, origin from; * During the Zhou Dynasty, Guan (官) family found from name of Guan Country of Jin (state) (晉) * The Guan People (官) are an old Ancient Chinese Minority, the surname Guan came from the tribe name * In the Chu state, shortened from the compound surname 上官 (Shangguan) * Another Guan (關) family adopted the surname Guan (官) with the same dialect * During the Jin dynasty (金), Mulao (仫佬) people took the surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Family Name
Chinese surnames are used by Han Chinese and Sinicized ethnic groups in China, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, and among overseas Chinese communities around the world such as Singapore and Malaysia. Written Chinese names begin with surnames, unlike the Western tradition in which surnames are written last. Around 2,000 Han Chinese surnames are currently in use, but the great proportion of Han Chinese people use only a relatively small number of these surnames; 19 surnames are used by around half of the Han Chinese people, while 100 surnames are used by around 87% of the population. A report in 2019 gives the most common Chinese surnames as Wang and Li, each shared by over 100 million people in China. The remaining top ten most common Chinese surnames are Zhang, Liu, Chen, Yang, Huang, Zhao, Wu and Zhou. Two distinct types of Chinese surnames existed in ancient China, namely ''xing'' () ancestral clan names and ''shi'' () branch lineage names. Later, the two terms began to be used in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
