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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Zheng (surname)</span> Surname list

Zheng or zhèng or Cheng (Wade-Giles) is a Chinese surname and also the name of an ancient state in today's Henan province. It is written as 鄭 in traditional Chinese and 郑 in simplified Chinese. It is the 7th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.

Jiang / Chiang can be a Mandarin transliteration of one of several Chinese surnames:

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Yong may refer to:

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Qin (surname)</span> Surname list

Qín (秦) is a common Chinese surname. "Qin" is the hanyu pinyin romanization of the surname for Mandarin, the common dialect of China; other romanizations of the surname include Chin and Jin in Mandarin, Ceon and Cheun in Cantonese, and Tần in Vietnamese. People with this surname are most commonly found in Henan, Shaanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Hubei and Hebei. It is the 18th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.

Zhang Han may refer to the following people surnamed Zhang:

Zheng Yin or Yin Zheng may refer to:

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Wen is the pinyin romanisation of the Chinese surname 文 (Wén).

Xie or Hsieh may refer to:

Duke Jing of Qin was from 576 to 537 BC the eighteenth ruler of the Zhou Dynasty state of Qin that eventually united China to become the Qin Dynasty. His ancestral name was Ying, and Duke Jing was his posthumous title. Duke Jing succeeded his father Duke Huan of Qin, who died in 577 BC, as ruler of Qin.

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Li or Lee is a common Chinese-language surname, it is the 4th name listed in the famous Hundred Family Surnames. Li is one of the most common surnames in Asia, shared by 92.76 million people in China, and more than 100 million in Asia. It is the second-most common surname in China as of 2018, the second-most common surname in Hong Kong, and the 5th most common surname in Taiwan, where it is usually romanized as "Lee". The surname is pronounced as in Cantonese, (poj) in Taiwanese Hokkien, but is often spelled as "Lee" in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and many overseas Chinese communities. In Macau, it is also spelled as "Lei". In Indonesia it is commonly spelled as "Lie". The common Korean surname, "Lee", and the Vietnamese surname, "", are both derived from Li and written with the same Chinese character (李). The character also means "plum" or "plum tree".

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