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	Chinese names, Chinese name meaning, Chinese name symbol, Name in chinese, Chinese last names
		According to the western tradition, in a name the given name is firstly placed followed by the family name like Bill Clinton, the name has the given name followed by the family name.
		While in the Chinese name the first preference is given to the family name, which is followed by the given name, like Hu Jintao.
		In the Chinese culture utmost importance is given to ancestors and family and hence they pay respect to their ancestors by placing the family name ahead of the given name.
	www.123chinesenewyear.com /china-culture/chinese-names.html (366 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Chinese family name (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A Chinese family name/clan name/surname (姓 in pinyin: xìng4) refers to one of the over seven hundreds of family names used by Han Chinese and Sinicized Chinese ethnic groups and is part of a Chinese name.
		Chinese family names are passed from the father, and there is generally a taboo against marriage between persons of the same surname.
		There are family names with three or more characters, but those are extremely rare and most likely have non-Han origin, for example, Aixinjueluo (愛新覺羅, also romanized as Aisin-gioro), the family name of the Manchu royal family of the Qing dynasty.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ch/Chinese_family_name (524 words)

	Chinese family name
		A Chinese family name/clan name/surname (姓 in pinyin: xìng4) refers to one of the over seven hundreds of family names used by Han Chinese and Sinicized Chinese ethnic groups and is part of a Chinese name.
		Chinese family names are passed from the father, and there is generally a taboo against marriage between persons of the same surname.
		There are family names with three or more characters, but those are extremely rare and most likely have non-Han origin, for example, Aixinjueluo (愛新覺羅, also romanized as Aisin-gioro), the family name of the Manchu royal family of the Qing dynasty.
	www.fastload.org /ch/Chinese_family_name.html (538 words)

	Chinese name - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chinese married women usually retain their maiden name as their family name, rather than adopt the name of their husband, and children usually inherit the father's family name.
		Chinese given names have one or two characters, and are written after the family name.
		In some families, one of the two characters in the personal name is shared by all members of a generation and these generational names are worked out long in advance, historically in a poem listing the names.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_name (1322 words)

	Chinese surname - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Chinese surname, family name (Chinese: 姓; pinyin: xìng or clan name 氏; shì), is one of the hundreds or thousands of family names that have been historically used by Han Chinese and Sinicized Chinese ethnic groups in mainland China, Taiwan, and among ethnic Chinese in overseas Chinese communities.
		Chinese family names are patrilineal, passed from father to children.
		For example, the 55th most popular family name Xiao (肖) is almost unheard of in Hong Kong, as this "new" surname was "created" from oversimplifying the traditional surname "蕭" during the Cultural Revolution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_family_name (2229 words)

	Wikipedia: Li
		Family names: Li or Lee is a common transliteration of a few Chinese family names.
		An abbreviation of names of rivers in China, e.g., Lishui River (澧水, Lǐ shǔi) and Lijiang River (漓江, Lí Jiāng) are sometimes abbreviated to Li.
		A Chinese unit of distance, 里(Li3), a li is equal to 500 meters, or about 1/3 mile, in ancient times a li was 360 paces, or about 576 meters (古代以三百六十步為一里).
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/l/li/li.html (199 words)

	CHINESE NAME FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Traditional naming schemes often followed a pattern of using generation_names as part of a two-character given name; however, this is less used today, especially in the People's_Republic_of_China, where many given names use only one character.
		Chinese married women usually retain their maiden name as their family_name, rather than adopt the name of their husband, and children usually inherit the father's family name.
		In some families, one of the two characters in the personal name is shared by all members of a generation and these generational_names are worked out long in advance, historically in a poem listing the names.
	www.witwib.com /Chinese_name (1270 words)

	The Top 100 Baby Names- Names from around the world
		Chinese names are not only meant to make a distinction from one person to another, but they also reflect on Chinese culture which has been passed over thousands of year.
		In some families, one of the two characters in the personal name is shared by all members of a generation and these generational names are worked out long in advance, historically in a poem listing the names.
		Among Chinese Americans, it is common practice to be referred to primarily by the Western name and to use the Chinese given name as a middle name; for instance, Soong would have "James Chu-yu Soong".
	www.thetop100babynames.com /Nationality/ChineseBabyNames.htm (2407 words)

	Chinese courtesy name - RSCI, The Science Classification Index (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A Chinese courtesy name, sometimes also known as a style name, was a pseudonym that was used in place of a given name by educated Chinese up until the 20th century.
		The zi (Chinese: 字; pinyin: zì) was a name given to males at the age of 20 sui, marking their coming of age.
		One character each of both Mao's given name and his zi relate to water (the common radical 澤, 氵 signifies "water") and beneficence: ze (澤, 泽) of the given name means "beneficence" and "marsh", and run (潤, 润) of the zi means "benefit" and "moisten".
	www.scienceindex.org /Hao.html (389 words)

	Exploring Chinese History :: Database Catalog :: Biographical Database :: Republican Era- (1912- 1949)
		This "register name" (譜名) is the name under which his extended relatives of the family knew him, this is a name that was used in formal occasions, such as when he got married.
		On November 12, 1866, Sun Yat-sen was born to a Chiuchow peasant family in the village of Cuiheng, Xiangshan county, Guangzhou prefecture, Guangdong province (26 km (16 miles) north of Macao) and spoke the Zhongshan dialect of Cantonese.
		This "register name" is the name under which his extended relatives of the Sun family would have known him; and it was a name that was used on formal occasions, such as when he got married.
	www.ibiblio.org /chinesehistory/contents/06dat/bio.3rep.html (9437 words)

	Korean family name
		Korean family names/clan names/surnames are influenced by the Chinese family name, hence, as in Chinese, the term the hundred family names (baekseong, 백성; 百姓) means people/commoners.
		As with the Chinese family name, almost all Korean family names have just one Hanja character (hence one syllable).
		Family names that came from the Chinese immigrants in the Three Kingdom Period (1st-3rd centuries A.D.) include Cho, Hwang, O, Ryu and Yi.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ko/Korean_family_name.html (280 words)

	Countries: List of most popular family names
		Family names can be unique or come in large numbers.
		The number one Chinese family name was Li3 at 7.9% of the sample, followed by Wang2 at 7.4% and Zhang1 at 7.1%, the study showed that the top 19 names covered 55.6% and the top 100 names covered 87% of the sample.
		Robinson (0.233%) The distribution of family names in the U.S. reflects the history of immigration into the country.
	www.morelawinfo.com /Countries/Most_popular_family_names.shtml (566 words)

	List of most popular family names Information - TextSheet.com
		The number one Chinese family name was (李) Li3 at 7.9% of the sample, followed by (王) Wang2 at 7.4% and (张) Zhang1 at 7.1%, the study showed that the top 19 names covered 55.6% and the top 100 names covered 87% of the sample.
		There were over 450 family names in Beijing, but there were less than 300 family names in Guangdong and Fujian.
		The most common names in Sweden are originally patronymic, which means that the son of e.g.
	www.medbuster.com /encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_most_popular_family_names.html (568 words)

	List of most popular family names - Gurupedia
		Family names can be unique or come in large numbers.
		The number one Chinese family name was (李) Li3 at 7.9% of the sample, followed by (王) Wang2 at 7.4% and (张) Zhang1 at 7.1%, the study showed that the top 19 names covered 55.6% and the top 100 names covered 87% of the sample.
		The name Cohen belongs to the members of the ancient family of priests (Kohanim, descendants of Aaron).
	www.gurupedia.com /l/li/list_of_most_popular_family_names.htm (662 words)

	Family name - Genealogy - a Wikia wiki
		A family name, or surname, is the part of a person's name that indicates to what family he or she belongs.
		It is extremely rare for men in Western countries to take the name of their wives; this was chiefly done in the Middle Ages, when a man from a low-born family was marrying an only daughter from a higher-status family, and was thus designated to carry on his wife's family name.
		Chinese women in Canada, especially Hongkongers in Toronto, would preserve their maiden names before the surnames of their husbands when written in English, for instance Rosa Chan Leung, where Chan is the maiden name, and Leung is the surname of the husband.
	genealogy.wikia.com /wiki/Family_name (5558 words)

	Jordan: Chinese Personal Names
		Chinese biographical dictionaries and other reference books tend to list people by their xìng and míngzi, but they are normally also quite meticulous in recording the zì of the people they write about, and various hào if they were much used.
		Traditionally personal names were selected with attention to their meanings, but also to the numbers of strokes and the elements that made up the characters.
		Chinese kinship terms are a study in themselves, since there are great many distinct terms that allow very precise indication of the relationships, and since there is some regional variation, and a difference between literary and colloquial usage.
	weber.ucsd.edu /~dkjordan/chin/hbnames-u.html (1981 words)

	English names catch on among Chinese - The Boston Globe
		When students enroll in Chinese colleges, they routinely are required to pick English names as a way to prepare themselves for life in their increasingly Westernized world.
		Promise Hong, a 30-year-old writer in Beijing, said her English name was a rough translation of her Chinese one, Xu, and that she saw a philosophical connotation in it.
		While most Chinese with English names reserve their use for times when they are in the company of foreigners, Eddy said more people, especially young women, prefer using their English names.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2006/10/01/english_names_catch_on_among_chinese (765 words)

	Chinese Family - China Style
		Family is the cell of the society, and archons of past dynasties all paid great attention to the stability of families, which affected the stability of the society and the regime of the archon as well.
		The Chinese for "family" is Jia, which generally means the basic family group, those who are related by blood, marriage, or adoption, living and managing their finances together.
		In general, a Chinese family is composed of a couple and their children, but big families with three or more generations can also be found in China.
	library.thinkquest.org /05aug/01780/essential/chinese-family.htm (865 words)

	Article about Chinese names by Yi Zhang - LEXICOOL.COM
		First, understand a fundamental difference between a Chinese name and a western name, that is, the order of given name and family name.
		Chinese characters that signify something special to parents are usually used to name their child.
		A foreign name is typically translated into Chinese based on its pronunciation using Chinese characters that are generally used to signify foreign names.
	www.lexicool.com /article-chinese-names-yi-zhang.asp (726 words)

	ipedia.com: List of most popular family names Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The number one Chinese family name was (李) Li3 at 7.9% of the sample, followed by (王) Wang2 at 7.4% and (张) Zhang1 at 7.1%, the study showed that the top 19 names covered 55.6% and the top 100 names covered 87% of the sample.
		The name Cohen belongs to the members of the ancient family of priests (Kohanim, descendants of Aaron).
		The name Levi belongs to the members of the family of Levites, descendants of Levi.
	www.ipedia.com /list_of_most_popular_family_names.html (1014 words)

	Chan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Chan (Chinese 禪) is traditionally held to be a Chinese adaptation of Indian dhyana meditation practices, and is also often said to be influenced by indigenous Chinese Taoism.
		According this view, Chan was a reaction to a perceived imbalance in Chinese Buddhism toward the blind pursuit of textual scholarship with a concomitant neglect of the original essence of Buddhist practice: meditation and the cultivation of right view.
		In the 20th and 21st Centuries Chan practice has been adopted by Westerners, particularly in Europe and the USA where several lay practitioners have received Dharma transmission from Chan Master Sheng-yen and are now teaching in their own centres.
	www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Chan (661 words)

	Chinese name (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In modern times, Chinese name has contained a Chinese family name, which is always placed first, with a one- or two-character personal name (given name) (名).
		In some families, the first of the two characters in the personal name is shared among all members of a generation and these generational names are worked out long in advance.
		Among Chinese Americans, it is common practice to be referred to primarily by the Western name and to using the Chinese name as a middle name.
	www.city-search.org /ch/chinese-name.html (868 words)

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		A Chinese unit of distance, 里(Li3), about 500 meters, 1/3 mile: in ancient times a li was 360 paces, or about 576 meters (古代以三百六十步為一里).
		The family names are unrelated to the Li Chinese minority group.
		Li can be the transliteration of 李; (pinyin Li3), the most common Chinese family name and often spelt as Lee, and other less common family names such as 黎 (Li2); 理 and 里 (Li3); 酈, 栗, 厲, 力, and 利 (Li4).
	online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/l/li/li.html (129 words)

	User: Menchi - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, in the Chinese Northeast
		List of subnational name etymologies: mostly moved stuff from deleted materials found in the revision history List of country name etymologies, except Taiwanese etymologies, which I Googled.
		I've also added Chinese characters (and when possible, their literal meaning), hanja, kanji, pinyin and tones to several pages.
	users.open-encyclopedia.com /Menchi (705 words)

	Chinese Names
		Chinese names, in modern times, are made up of the Chinese family name, which is always placed first, and a one- or two-character personal name (given name) (名).
		The common Western practice of naming the children after their parents, ancestors, or historical figures is an impossibility in Chinese culture.
		In some families, the first of the two characters in the personal name is shared by all members of a generation and these generational names are worked out long in advance.
	www.chineseculture.info /culture/names.htm (734 words)

	ipedia.com: Family name Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is extremely rare for men in Western countries to take the name of their wives; this was chiefly done in the Middle Ages, when the man was from a low-born family and was marrying an only daughter, and was thus designated to carry on his wife's family name.
		In Russia, names are typically written with both family name and patronymic, a modified version of the father's name.
		In addition, many Chinese Americans have an English name which is commonly used and a Chinese name which is used as a middle name, that is to say, Martin Chu-ming Lee.
	www.ipedia.com /family_name.html (1557 words)

	Surname Origin & Last Name Meanings. Free Family Name Dictionary with Family History & Genealogy Resources by Ancestor ...
		A surname, also known as a last name or family name, is a fixed name shared in common with the members of a family and is passed down from generation to generation.
		At first, these last names were not passed down to the next generation.
		The Chinese were among the very first cultures to adopt the use of hereditary surnames about 5000 years ago.
	www.searchforancestors.com /surnames/origin (607 words)

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