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Lei is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname (''Léi''). It is the 69th name on the ''Hundred Family Surnames'' poem.K. S. Tom. 989(1989). Echoes from Old China: Life, Legends and Lore of the Middle Kingdom. University of Hawaii Press. . Additionally, the very common Chinese surname Li () is pronounced Lei in Standard Cantonese, and is sometimes romanized as "Lei", particularly among the Macanese. Romanization The surname is also romanized as Lui or Looi in Hokkien and Teochew; Lui, Looi, or Loi in Cantonese; Louie or Louis in Taishanese; Lūi in Gan. Sino-Xenic pronunciations include Lôi in Vietnamese; Roe () or Noe () in Korean; and Rai in Japanese. Distribution 雷 is the 79th-most-common surname in mainland China but not included among the 100 most common surnames on Taiwan. In the United States, Lei is an uncommon surname, ranking 14,849th during the 1990 census and 6,583rd during the year 2000 census.US Census Bureau. Op. cit. Public Broad ...
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Lui (surname)
Lui is a surname in various cultures. It may be a variant spelling of two Chinese surnames ( Léi and Lǚ), as well as an Italian surname. The surname Lui can also be found on various Pacific Islands. Origins Lui may be the spelling of various Chinese surnames, based on their pronunciation in different varieties of Chinese; they are listed below by their spelling in Hanyu Pinyin, which reflects the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation: * Léi (), meaning "thunder"; the spelling Lui is based on the Cantonese pronunciation (). The spelling Lui is common in Hong Kong, while other spellings of the same surname such as Loi and Louie are found in Macau and among overseas Chinese. * Lǚ (); nearly-homophonous with the above in Cantonese (; note the differing tone), and so also spelled Lui, Loi, or Louie. Lui is also an Italian surname, derived from the name of the month of July in the Eastern Lombard dialect spoken in Mantua and surroundings (compare Italian ). Statistics In Italy, ...
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Loi (surname)
Loi is a surname. It has various origins, including as a spelling in Punjabi as Loi, three Chinese surnames (, , ), a traditional surname from Sardinia, and a surname in India among Jatt Sikhs. Loi is a common Jatt surname found among Sikhs in Punjab. The surname only belongs to the Jatt caste within Punjab and the Sikh community. Origins Loi may be the spelling of three Chinese surnames, based on their pronunciation in different varieties of Chinese; they are listed below by their spelling in Hanyu Pinyin, which reflects the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation: * Léi (), meaning "thunder"; the spelling Loi is based on the Cantonese pronunciation (). The spelling Loi is common in Macau, while other spellings of the same surname such as Lui and Louie are found in Hong Kong and among overseas Chinese. * Lǚ (); nearly-homophonous with the above in Cantonese (; note the differing tone), and so also spelled Loi, Lui, or Louie. * Lí (), a fossil word meaning "black" or "brown". The spel ...
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Looi
Looi is a surname. Origins Like many other similarly-spelled surnames (Lui, Loi, Louie, etc.), it can originate from either of two Chinese surnames which are almost homophonous in Cantonese, though pronounced distinctly in Mandarin: * Léi (), meaning "thunder" (). The spelling Looi might also originate from its pronunciation in various Southern Min dialects, e.g. Hokkien () or Chaoshan (Peng'im: ). * Lǚ (), a toponymic surname from the ancient state of Lü (; note the differing tone). The pronunciation in other varieties of Chinese is not similar to the surname meaning "thunder". As a Dutch surname, Looi originated both as shortened version of van de Looi with the ''tussenvoegsels'' dropped, and as a patronymic surname derived from the given name Looi. That given name is a regional hypocorism of various other given names: it may be short for Ludolf, or for Lodewijk in Groningen and the southern Netherlands, or for Eligius in Friesland. Alternative spellings include Looij. St ...
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Noe (surname)
Noe is a surname in various European countries originating from the given name Noah, as well as a rare Korean surname meaning " thunder". Origins As a Dutch, English, French, and German surname, Noe is derived from the biblical given name Noah (Middle English and Latin ). Other surnames with the same derivation include the English variant Noy, as well as Noa and Nohe. The spelling Noè usually originates from the Italian form of the given name Noah, while the spelling Noé usually originates from the French form, but in many cases, descendants in other countries have dropped the diacritics. Occasionally, the ancestors of some modern-day bearers of the surname had instead derived it from the given name Noël, or as a toponymic surname from Noé, Haute-Garonne, France. Noah was not a common given name in medieval England when the surname first appeared there, and so Patrick Hanks suggests that the surname may have been used by descendants of people who were nicknamed Noah ...
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List Of Common Chinese Surnames
These are lists of the most common Chinese surnames in the China, People's Republic of China (Hong Kong, Macau, and Mainland China), the Taiwan, Republic of China (Taiwan), and the overseas Chinese, Chinese diaspora overseas as provided by government or academic sources. Chinese names also form the basis for many common Lists of most common surnames in Asian countries#Cambodia, Cambodian, list of common Japanese surnames, Japanese, list of Korean surnames, Korean, and Lists of most common surnames in Asian countries#Vietnam, Vietnamese surnames, and to an extent, Lists of most common surnames in Asian countries#Philippines, Filipino surnames in both translation and transliteration into those languages. The conception of China as consisting of the "baixing, old hundred families" () is an ancient and traditional one, the most notable tally being the Song dynasty, Song-era ''Hundred Family Surnames'' (). Even today, the number of surnames in China is a little over 4,000, while the ye ...
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Louie (surname)
Louie is an obsolete romanization of the Chinese surname Lei (雷), occasionally still used among speakers of Cantonese or Southern Min dialects * Alexina Louie (born 1949), Canadian composer * Janis Louie (born 1971), chemistry professor working at the University of Utah * Brandt C. Louie (born 1943), Canadian accountant and businessman * Clarence Louie (born 1960), Canadian First Nations leader and businessman * David M. Louie (born 1951), American attorney, former Attorney General of Hawaii * David Wong Louie (born 1954), American novelist, short story writer and essayist. * Gilman Louie (born 1960), American game designer and venture capitalist * Juliette Louie (born 1994), Miss Hong Kong 2017 * "Lakewood" Louie, American poker player best known for his success at the World Series of Poker in the late 1970s and early 1980s * Steven Gwon Sheng Louie Steven Gwon Sheng Lei (surname), Louie (26 March 1949, Taishan, Guangdong, Taishan, Guangdong, China)''American Men and W ...
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Hundred Family Surnames
The ''Hundred Family Surnames'' (), commonly known as ''Bai Jia Xing'', also translated as ''Hundreds of Chinese Surnames'', is a classic Chinese language , Chinese text composed of common Chinese surnames. An unknown author compiled the book during the Song dynasty (960–1279).K. S. Tom. [1989] (1989). Echoes from Old China: Life, Legends and Lore of the Middle Kingdom p. 12. University of Hawaii Press. . The book lists 504 surnames. Of these, 444 are single-character surnames and 60 are Chinese compound surname, double-character surnames. About 800 names have been derived from the original ones. In the dynasties following the Song, the 13th-century ''Three Character Classic'', the ''Hundred Family Surnames'', and the 6th-century ''Thousand Character Classic'' came to be known as ''San Bai Qian'' (Three, Hundred, Thousand), from the first character in their titles. They served as instructional books for children, becoming the almost universal introductory literary texts for ...
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Vietnamese Language
Vietnamese () is an Austroasiatic languages, Austroasiatic language Speech, spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the official language. It belongs to the Vietic languages, Vietic subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family. Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 86 million people, and as a second language by 11 million people, several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. It is the native language of Vietnamese people, ethnic Vietnamese (Kinh), as well as the second language, second or First language, first language for List of ethnic groups in Vietnam, other ethnicities of Vietnam, and used by Overseas Vietnamese, Vietnamese diaspora in the world. Like many languages in Southeast Asia and East Asia, Vietnamese is highly analytic language, analytic and is tone (linguistics), tonal. It has head-initial directionality, with subject–verb–object order and modifiers following the words they modify. It also uses noun classifier (linguistics), classi ...
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Japanese Language
is the principal language of the Japonic languages, Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages and the variously classified Hachijō language. There have been many Classification of the Japonic languages, attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as Ainu languages, Ainu, Austronesian languages, Austronesian, Koreanic languages, Koreanic, and the now discredited Altaic languages, Altaic, but none of these proposals have gained any widespread acceptance. Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century AD recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial Old Japanese texts did not appear until the 8th century. From the Heian period (794–1185), extensive waves of Sino-Ja ...
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Rai (surname)
Rai (; ; ; ) is a surname in use since historical times on the Indian subcontinent. Etymologically the term is inherited from () , from . ''Rai'' is a Doublet (linguistics), doublet with the : both words—''raja'' and —mean 'king' in Hindi. People * A. N. Rai (born 1955), Indian academic administrator * Aanand L. Rai (born 1971), Indian film director and producer * Aaron Rai (born 1995), English golfer * Ade Rai (born 1970), Indonesian bodybuilder * Agansing Rai (1920–2000), Nepali recipient of the Victoria Cross * Aishwarya Rai (born 1973), Indian actress and former Miss World * Ajay Rai, Indian politician * Ajeet Rai (born 1999), New Zealand tennis player * Alisha Rai (author), American writer * Alka Rai, Indian politician * Amit Rai, Indian film director * Amrit Rai (–1996), Indian writer * Anand Rai (born 1977), Indian activist * Asish Rai (born 1999), Indian footballer * Atul Rai (born 1982), Indian politician * Babbal Rai (born 1985), Indian Punjab singer * Baleshwa ...
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Korean Language
Korean is the first language, native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Koreans, Korean descent. It is the national language of both South Korea and North Korea. In the south, the language is known as () and in the north, it is known as (). Since the turn of the 21st century, aspects of Korean Wave, Korean popular culture have spread around the world through globalization and Korean Wave, cultural exports. Beyond Korea, the language is recognized as a minority language in parts of China, namely Jilin, and specifically Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Yanbian Prefecture, and Changbai Korean Autonomous County, Changbai County. It is also spoken by Sakhalin Koreans in parts of Sakhalin, the Russian island just north of Japan, and by the in parts of Central Asia. The language has a few Extinct language, extinct relatives which—along with the Jeju language (Jejuan) of Jeju Island and Korean itself—form the compact Koreanic language family. Even so, Jejuan and ...
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Roe (surname)
Roe is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alban Roe (1583–1642), English Benedictine martyr * Alliott Verdon Roe (1877–1958), British aircraft manufacturer * Allison Roe (born 1956), New Zealand marathon runner and politician * Ann Roe (born 1966), Wisconsin politician * Anna Wang Roe (born 1959), American neuroscientist * Anne Roe (1904–1991), American clinical psychologist and researcher * Arthur Roe (footballer) (1892–1960), English football halfback * Arthur Roe (politician) (1878–1942), American politician and lawyer * Arthur Stanley Roe, medical doctor from Queensland, Australia * Brian Roe (1939–2014), English cricketer * Charles Roe (1715–1781), English industrialist * David Roe (born 1965), English snooker player * Edward Payson Roe (1838–1888), American novelist * Erica Roe (born 1957), Twickenham streaker * Sir Francis Roe (died 1620), Irish politician * Francis Asbury Roe (1823–1901), United States Navy admiral * Gloria R ...
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