Shing is a surname.
Origins
Shing may be a spelling of multiple
Chinese surnames based on different
varieties of Chinese
Chinese, also known as Sinitic, is a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family consisting of hundreds of local varieties, many of which are not mutually intelligible. Variation is particularly strong in the more mountainous southeast of ma ...
, listed below by their romanisation in
Mandarin
Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to:
Language
* Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country
** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China
** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...
pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin (), often shortened to just pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese, Standard Mandarin Chinese in China, and to some extent, in Singapore and Malaysia. It is often used to teach Mandarin, normally writte ...
:
*
Chéng ( but not ), spelled Sing or Shing based on the
Cantonese
Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding ar ...
pronunciation (
Yale
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wor ...
: ''Sìhng'';
Jyutping
Jyutping is a romanisation system for Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK), an academic group, in 1993. Its formal name is the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme. The LSHK advocates fo ...
: ''Sing4'';
IPA
IPA commonly refers to:
* India pale ale, a style of beer
* International Phonetic Alphabet, a system of phonetic notation
* Isopropyl alcohol, a chemical compound
IPA may also refer to:
Organizations International
* Insolvency Practitioners ...
: /sɪŋ²¹/).
*
Shèng (), homophonous with the above surname in Cantonese.
*
Xīn (), spelled Sing or Shing based on its pronunciation in the
Teochew dialect
Teochew or Chaozhou (, , , Teochew endonym: , Shantou dialect: ) is a dialect of Chaoshan Min, a Southern Min language, that is spoken by the Teochew people in the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong and by their diaspora around the world. ...
of
Southern Min (
Peng'im
(: ( Teochew) (Swatow), : or , : or ) is a Teochew dialect romanisation system as a part of Guangdong Romanisation published by Guangdong Provincial Education Department in 1960. Tone of this system is based on Swatow dialect. The system ...
: ''sing¹''; IPA: /siŋ³/).
*
Xíng (), sometimes spelled in non-standard fashion as Shing, based on the Mandarin pronunciation (IPA: /ɕiŋ³⁵/).
Shing is also a surname in other cultures.
Statistics
In the Netherlands, there were 44 people with the surname Shing as of 2007, up from zero in 1947.
The
2010 United States Census
The United States census of 2010 was the twenty-third United States national census. National Census Day, the reference day used for the census, was April 1, 2010. The census was taken via mail-in citizen self-reporting, with enumerators servi ...
found 340 people with the surname Shing, making it the 59,470th-most-common name in the country. This represented a decrease from 352 people (54,766th-most-common) in the
2000 Census. In both censuses, about four-fifths of the bearers of the surname identified as
Asian
Asian may refer to:
* Items from or related to the continent of Asia:
** Asian people, people in or descending from Asia
** Asian culture, the culture of the people from Asia
** Asian cuisine, food based on the style of food of the people from Asi ...
, and about one-tenth as
White
White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White o ...
.
People
Notable people with these surnames include:
*
Shing Fui-On
Shing Fui-On (成奎安; 1 February 1955 – 27 August 2009) was a Hong Kong actor, best known for his supporting roles in Hong Kong cinema. He had only one leading role in his entire career.
Biography
Shing Fui-On was the fourth of five ...
(; 1955–2009), Hong Kong actor
*
David Shing (born 1970), Australian technology evangelist
*
Harriet Shing (born 1976), Australian politician
*
Yoshua Shing
Yoshua Shing (born 20 June 1993 in Port Vila) is a Vanuatuan table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and fort ...
(born 1993), ni-Vanuatu table tennis player
References
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Chinese-language surnames
Multiple Chinese surnames
Cantonese-language surnames