Comments on: Chinese surnames and spelling variations

By: Andrew Jung

Andrew Jung — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:04:46 +0000

Oops, scratch the Chang and Jang. I was just talking to my dad and the Chang came from my dad’s sister-in-law which doesn’t have the same last name. But yes, please add Jung for 鄭 as there are quite a number of us in Canada that ended up with this spelling.

By: Andrew Jung

Andrew Jung — Wed, 09 May 2012 19:57:08 +0000

鄭 – please also add Jung, Chang, and Jang from Cantonese and local dialects. I have family members (including myself) with these spellings for 鄭. Thanks for having this list!

By: SThorn

SThorn — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 07:06:05 +0000

Please include 岑 Sham as well.

By: SThorn

SThorn — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 07:02:58 +0000

Please include

熊 Hong, Hung

which pronounced just like

洪 Hong, Hung

as this variations. I hope you can update.

By: dr.k.conor

dr.k.conor — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:47:03 +0000

Two questions: a notable teacher of Cheng Man-ching Yang-family Tai-chi-chuan in San Francisco: Ben Lo..Benjamin Lo, Lo Pang Jeng.
A first guess would be ? 盧彭荊 . I also have a website, hopefully accurate, regarding a lineage :
http://waterspirit6x8.tripod.com/id18.html
The unsubstandiated origin is from Song dyn. sage: Chen Bo 陳摶
followed by Li Tung Feng: 李東風 who does not appear in Chinese history; I have noted Li family history back to song on your site. Anyone know something of Li family in this context?

By: May Yan

May Yan — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:35:28 +0000

It’s not easy to determine if “Madam Su Yen” actually went by the surname Su or Yen. There is no mentioning of her publication that inspired William Irvine was actually written in English language.

By: dr.k.conor

dr.k.conor — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:21:50 +0000

Yes, thank you, 關德興 Guan de-xing is the correct person-actor; he counseled then young Bruce Lee 李小龍 with a ‘dragon-style’ boxing as a basis for ‘jet kun do’ characteristically the same. Bruce’s father, Lee, Hoi Chuen, 李海泉 a Peking Opera star, was friends with Liang Zi-peng 梁子鵬, a HK teacher of ‘water-style’ tai-chi-. A number of quotations made later by Bruce come from Liang’s teachings.
It is quite difficult to sort out the Cantonese+ names.
Thanks again.

By: woodson

woodson — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:55:45 +0000

It is very difficult to guess the Chinese characters of your Tai Chi teacher’s name because there are so many dialects.

I think the name actor you are referring to is 關德興 who is known for playing the role of 黃飛鴻。

By: dr.k.conor

dr.k.conor — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:59:33 +0000

I am attempting to ‘recreate’ the names of my tai-chi- teachers
‘Jiu, Moon-chao’ which would seem to be: 趙穆曹 [??]
…or Jiu Moon-Jiao – 秋 Chiu [ 吴 Wu=Moon 蕭 Xiao =Chow ]

Also, the name of a famous HK early movie star:
Kwan ta ching? 關大 ?

Any ideas on this?

By: Helen

Helen — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:28:46 +0000

Hi dear friends,

Oh I am so glad to have found your site! I am working on a project with a friend in Canada and we are trying to trace a certain Chinese 19th century (?) lady author called Madam Su Yen who wrote a book which was read in Britain in 1897 by a man in Scotland and he was very inspired by it. We have no other information on this lady or her book and cannot find any. Then I wondered if her name Yen might have many different spellings. This led me here to you!
I should like to respectfully ask you if you have you got any suggestions as to which spelling might be the right one? I can see that Yan and Zhen include Yen as a spelling.

May Yan, I was so interested in your comment as you seem to have the same name. We would greatly appreciate any help you can give us.

With best wishes,

Helen

PS I visited China for 10 days in January 2004 as the guest of Beijing Polytechnic University and I loved it. Everyone was so kind to me. I gave a lecture to the staff of the English Department on the history of the English Language.