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Huo Zhuang
Huo () is a Chinese surname. It is pronounced as Fok in Cantonese. During the Zhou Dynasty, King Wu of Zhou, King Wu awarded land to his brother Shuchu (叔處) in "Huo" (modern Huozhou, Shanxi), and Shuchu's descendants adopted "Huo" as their family name. Notable people * Huo Qubing (霍去病; 140–117 BC), Western Han Dynasty general * Huo Guang (霍光; d. 68 BC), Huo Qubing's half-brother, Western Han Dynasty statesman * Empress Huo Chengjun, Huo Chengjun (霍成君; d. 54 BC), Huo Guang's daughter, Western Han Dynasty empress * Huo Jun (霍峻; 177–216), Eastern Han Dynasty general * Huo Yi (霍弋), Huo Jun's son, Shu general of the Three Kingdoms period * Huo Ji (霍冀; 1516–1575), Ming Dynasty official * Huo Yuanjia (霍元甲; 1868–1910), Qing Dynasty martial artist * Henry Fok, Henry Fok Ying-tung (霍英東; Huo Yingdong; 1923–2006), Hong Kong businessman * Timothy Fok, Timothy Fok Tsun-ting (霍震霆; Huo Zhenting; b. 1946), Henry Fok's eldest son, Hong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Surname
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 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
