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Mo (Chinese Surname)
The Chinese family name Mo (wikt:莫, 莫) is pronounced in Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin as "Mò" (4th tone), in Cantonese as "Mok6" (6th tone). The surname is often romanized as Mok where Cantonese speakers are prominent. According to a study of Mu Ying's Name record, the surname came to be when descendants of the antediluvian ruler Zhuanxu abbreviated the name of his city, Moyangcheng (莫陽城; in modern-day Pingxiang County, Hebei) and took it as their surname. As Chinese family names go, Mo is relatively rare, ranked 168th in the ''Hundred Family Surnames''. In 2004, there were an estimated 73,000 people with the surname of Mo abroad and 1,540,000 Mos in China. When not used as a surname, 'Mo' (莫) means 'do not'. Notable people Arts and culture *Mo Yan (莫言), real name Guan Moye (管谟业), Chinese author, Nobel laureate *Max Mok Siu-Chung (莫少聰), Hong Kong actor *Hoyan Mok (莫可欣), winner of Miss Hong Kong Pageant (1993) *Karen Mok (莫文蔚), Hong Kong s ... [...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 int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn Mok
Evelyn Mok (born 29 November 1987) is a Swedish-born Chinese stand-up comedian and actress. Early life Mok was born in Sweden to a Chinese immigrant family. Her father came from British Hong Kong, and her mother is Chinese and grew up in India. Mok jokes that she identified as Indian until she was ten. Career Mok began performing stand-up in Sweden and later went to England's University of Roehampton as part of the Erasmus Programme. She was a finalist at the Chortle Awards in 2013 and described Andy Kaufman, Demetri Martin and Tony Law as her favourite comics. ''Comedy Central'' (Sweden) referred to her as "the Swedish Amy Schumer". Mok has performed at every Edinburgh Fringe since 2013. Mok has appeared on ''Mock the Week'', ''Hypothetical'', ''Heresy'', ''Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster'' and ''Sam Delaney's News Thing'', and has also appeared on Swedish TV. As an actress, Mok has appeared in '' Spider-Man: Far From Home'', ''I Hate Suzie'' and ''The Reluctant L ... [...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] |
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] |
Mạc (surname)
Mạc ( Hán tự: 莫) is a Vietnamese surname. The name is transliterated as Mo in Chinese and Mua in Hmong language. It is also of Gaelic origin, meaning son, used as a prefix in many Irish and Scottish surnames e.g. MacDonald, and MacGregor. Mac is the anglicised variation of the surname Mạc. Distribution As a surname, Mac is the 409th most common surname, in Great Britain, with 23,149 bearers. It is most common in the City of Aberdeen, and Greater Manchester, where it is the 25th and 107th most common surname, in both counties having 3,268 bearers, respectively. Other concentrations include, the Western Isles, (13th,1,712), East Lothian, (63rd,1,698), the City of Glasgow, (90th,3,188), County Down, (147th,1,686), East Sussex, (247th,1,646), Belfast, (266th,1,682), Berkshire, (383rd,1,696), South Yorkshire, (466th,1,626), Merseyside, (490th,1,624), and Greater London, (1,189th,1,730). Notable people with the surname Mạc *Mạc Đĩnh Chi *Mạc Cửu, a Chinese adve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mo Huilan
Mo Huilan (; born 19 July 1979 in Guilin, Guangxi) is a retired Chinese gymnast who competed at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. She was one of China's most successful gymnasts in the 1990s. She was known for performing routines of exceptional difficulty and technique, but also for inconsistency. Her birth date has been reported in various events as July 19 and November 7; it is unclear which is correct. She is a fraternal twin; her sister Mo Huifang was also a gymnast. Gymnastics career Both Huilan and Huifang began gymnastics in 1985 in Guangxi. In 1990, they were invited to attend a camp in Beijing to test for admission to the Chinese national training center. Huifang was accepted, but Huilan was not. Showing determination that would serve her well in her competitive career, she talked coaches into allowing her to remain in Beijing with her sister. Eventually, Huifang was injured and retired from gymnastics; Huilan, in contrast, thrived and improved. Mo made her internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mo Teh-hui
Mo Teh-hui (; 1883 in Xinjiang Province, Qing Dynasty – April 17, 1968 in Taipei, Taiwan) was a nationalist Chinese politician. Biography Mo was born in 1883 in Xinjiang, to a Uyghur mother and Manchu father. He was born while his father was serving under General Zuo Zongtang in the Dungan revolt (1862–77), fighting against Yaqub Beg in Xinjiang. Mo's family then moved to a part of Jilin, a former province which is now part of Heilongjiang. Mo's political career started in 1921, in Binjiang County (near Harbin) of Manchuria. As the county magistrate, Mo divided the county into five defense districts coterminous with the regular police districts, and recruited men into the constabulary to defend the whole county against bandits. He held that post until 1912, when he was elected to the provisional National Assembly of the newly established Republic of China. He was Acting Minister of Agriculture and Commerce (1925) and Minister of Agriculture and Industry (1927–28) of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mo Xuanqing
Mo Xuanqing (, August 17, 834) born in Zhaoqing, modern Guangdong, was the youngest Zhuangyuan in the imperial examinations during the Tang Dynasty, in Chinese history. He was known as a talented person from the age of 12. In 851, at the age of 17, he was also the first youngest Zhuangyuan in the imperial examination in Chinese history since the Sui Dynasty and the first Zhuangyuan in Lingnan. Poetry Mo Xuanqing composed more than 200 pieces: poems and songs, however, most of his poems were lost and there are not more than 20 pieces remaining published in China's literary history such as the ''Quan Tang Shi'' and the ''Cantonese Poetry Collection'' (). External links QQ.com十七歲被欽點狀元中國史上最年輕狀元莫宣卿肇慶曆史勝跡――唐狀元莫宣卿墓 *[https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=zh-TW&sl=zh-CN&u=http://shuku.mofcom.gov.cn/book/htmfile/13/B60013.htm&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%25E8%258E%25AB%25E5%25AE%25A3%25E5% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tze Ming Mok
Tze Ming Mok (; born 1978) is a fiction writer and sociopolitical commentator, and has been a prominent New Zealand Asian community advocate. Biography Mok was born in Auckland, New Zealand, growing up in the suburb of Mount Roskill. Her parents came to New Zealand in 1973 as international students studying medicine, and were originally from Singapore and Malaysia. Mok received her degrees at the University of Auckland. She has an MA in political studies, with a thesis titled ''In the name of the Pacific: Theorising pan-Pacific identities in Aotearoa New Zealand''. Mok works in human rights and development. She received her Doctor of Philosophy from the London School of Economics in 2019 with a thesis titled ''Inside the box: ethnic choice and ethnic change for mixed people in the United Kingdom''. Mok's most prominent period of advocacy for New Zealand Asian, migrant, and New Zealand Chinese communities was the period 2005–2007, during which time her ethnopolitical blog Yell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May Mok
May Mok Mei-Wah () is a Hong Kong award-winning sound effects Sound editor (filmmaking), editor, who also specializes in Audio mixing (recorded music), sound mixing, sound design, and Advanced Digital Recording, ADR recording. ''May Mok Overview by IMDb'' Filmography *''Dead Slowly'' (2009) (sound mixer) (sound designer) *''Exiled'' (2006) (sound mixer) (sound designer) *''Election 2'' (a.k.a. ''Triad Election'') (sound designer) (sound mixer) *''2 Become 1 (film), 2 Become 1'' (2006) (sound mixer) (sound designer) *''Love @ First Note'' (2006) (sound mixer) (sound designer) *''Fatal Contact (film), Fatal Contact'' (2006) (sound mixer) (sound designer) *''Election (2005 film), Election'' (2005) (sound designer) (sound mixer) *''The Unusual Youth'' (2005) (sound mixer) (sound desi ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Mok
Ken Mok is a television producer, and also the founder and president of 10x10 Entertainment, a production company which produces television, film and alternative media. Among the television projects being produced under the 10x10 banner are the CW network's top-rated reality series, ''America's Next Top Model'', ''Pussycat Dolls Present'', VH1's ''Miss Rap Supreme'', and other shows. Mok is also the creator of the MTV series ''Making the Band'' and ''WWE Tough Enough''. Career as producer *''Joy'' (2015) (producer) *''America's Next Top Model'' TV Series (executive producer, cycle 1 - 24) *'' Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll'' TV Series (executive producer) *'' Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious'' TV Series (executive producer) *'' Stylista TV Series (executive producer) *''The Shot'' TV Series (executive producer) *''ego trip's Miss Rap Supreme'' TV Series (executive producer) *''ego trip's The (White) Rapper Show'' TV Series (executive producer) *''Invinci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Mok
Charles Peter Mok, JP (born 1964 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong-based Internet entrepreneur and IT advocate who formerly represents the Information Technology functional constituency on the Hong Kong Legislative Council. Mok founded HKNet in 1994, and contributed the company's expansion as a major IP telecommunications operator in Hong Kong before its acquisition by NTT Communications in 2000. He was a founding chairman of Internet Society, Hong Kong Chapter, and the ''ex officio'' member and ex-president of the Hong Kong Information Technology Federation. He was also a past chairman and a co-founder of the Hong Kong Internet Service Providers Association. He is currently a Hong Kong Legislative Councillor. He has been actively promoting the industry's development and digital comprehension in the region since the early 1990s. He has been actively participating in the community to promote fair competition, media freedom, personal privacy, consumer protection, healthcare, transp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
