Shangguan (surname)
Shangguan is the atonal pinyin romanization of various Chinese words and names, and may refer to: * Shangguan (surname), see Chinese compound surname * Shangguan, Shanxi (上馆镇, ''Shǎngguǎnzhèn''), a town in Shanxi, China {{dab ...
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Chinese Compound Surname
A Chinese compound surname is a Chinese surname using more than one Chinese character, character. Many of these compound surnames derive from Zhou dynasty Chinese noble and official titles, professions, place names and other areas, to serve a purpose. Some are originally from various tribes that lived in ancient China, while others were created by joining two one-character family names. Only a few of these names (e.g. Ouyang [歐陽/欧阳], Shangguan (surname), Shangguan [上官], Sima (Chinese surname), Sima [司馬/司马], Zhuge [諸葛/诸葛], Situ (surname), Situ [司徒], Xiahou [夏侯], Huangfu [皇甫], and Huyan [呼延]) can still be found quite commonly in modern times with Ouyang, Shangguan, Sima and Situ appearing most frequently. Many clans eventually took on a single-character surname for various reasons. Chinese surnames with more than two characters are mostly not of ethnic Chinese origin (e.g. Xianbei or Turkic languages, Turkic), and are becoming exceedingly ra ...
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