Chinese Surnames
Chinese surnames are mostly one character or single-symbol, appearing in first and followed by the given name, mostly two characters or two symbols. There are more than 6,000 Chinese surnames currently used in China, but the top 100 popular surnames cover almost all of them.
The "National Name Report" released by the Household Administration Research Center of the Ministry of Public Security of Mainland China in 2019 pointed that the top five surnames are, 王 (Wang), 李 (Li), 張 (Zhang), 劉(Liu), and 陳(Chen), and the top five main surnames alone account for one-third of the Chinese population.
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Good names for modern celebrities
The names of many famous people you are familiar with in modern China also come from classical sentences
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Familiar names of modern Chinese celebrities
People who like Chinese culture may often hear the names of these people, and their names are also from famous books or poems.
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Naming Considerations
good name means good luck
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Tang celebrities whose names from verses
Tang Dynasty celebrities whose names came from classic verses, no wonder it's so beautiful.
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Yuan Dynasty celebrity names origin
Yuan Dynasty famous names are also very beautiful.?
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Naming Considerations
good name means good luck
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Chinese Names are Different
First name last, last name first?
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Chinese Surnames
so many different surnames?
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Naming Considerations
good name means good luck
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Naming Taboo
can't be named this way
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Chinese Genealogy Names
why do siblings have similar names?
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Common Characters in Chinese names
can names identify gender?
