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    The Hundred Family Surnames (Chinese: 百家姓), commonly known as Bai Jia Xing, also translated as Hundreds of Chinese Surnames, is a classic Chinese text...
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  • notable tally being the Song-era Hundred Family Surnames (Chinese: 百家姓; pinyin: Bǎi Jiā Xìng). Even today, the number of surnames in China is a little over 4...
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  • Chinese names begin with surnames, unlike the Western tradition in which surnames are written last. Around 2,000 Han Chinese surnames are currently in use...
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  • Security in January 2019, there are 6,150 different surnames in China with the top 100 surnames used by 85% of the population in 2018. Most Indonesians...
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    the Hundred Family Surnames poem, contained in the verse 何呂施張 (Hé Lǚ Shī Zhāng). Zhang is also the pinyin romanization of the less-common surnames 章 (Zhāng)...
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    name listed in the Song dynasty classic Hundred Family Surnames. In 2019 Wu was the ninth most common surname in Mainland China. A 2013 study found that...
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    is a common Chinese 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...
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    number of Chinese surnames. The most common one, Jīn 金, literally means "gold" and is 29th in the list of "Hundred Family Surnames". As of 2006, it is...
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    in the famous Hundred Family Surnames. A separate surname 汪 (Wāng) is also romanized as Wang. Wáng is one of the most common surnames in the world and...
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  • assimilation and the recent trend toward Hebraization of surnames. Some traditional surnames relate to Jewish history or roles within the religion, such...
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