This is a listing of the spelling variations of some of Chinese surnames that we know of: 區 Au, Aun, Ou 歐 Au, Aun, Ou 白 Bai, Bak, Pak, Pek, Pack 費 Bei, Bi, Fai, Fay, Fei 薄 Bo, Bok 蔡 Cai, Choi, Choy, Toy, Tsai 曹 Cao, Chao, Cho, Tsao 陳 Chan, Chen,...
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It seems every nationality has a few major surnames. With the British the big threes are: Smythe, Jones and Williams. Schultz, Mueller, and Schmidt are the German counterparts. What are the Chinese equivalent? China has not three but four major surnames, Cheung (張), Chiu/Zhao (趙), Lee/Li (李), and Wang (王). They account for 25%...
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It is human nature that inadvertently the question “how many Chinese surnames are there?” will be ask. It is a fair and legitimate question. With China conducting regular census one would expect this to be no more than a walk in the park. However, this is far from being the case. The best known...
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