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Chinese Surnames

Chinese Surname Research

Chinese Kinship Titles By William Kiejan Tong
http://www.oakton.edu/user/~billtong/chinaclass/chinesekin.htm#chart
This site features Chinese kinship title system, pronunciation guide in three dialects (Mandarin, Standard Cantonese, Toisan (Taishan) Cantonese dialect). No Chinese characters.

One Hundred Surnames. http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chinesesurname/hundred.html
This site focuses on the 100 most common surnames in China.

Rootsweb Chinese Surnames
http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chinesesurname/

Wikipedia Chinese Surnames  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_surname
Includes origin and distributions of Han surnames.  Also, look up individual surnames.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_Chinese_surnames
Common Chinese surnames in China, U.S., Taiwan, Malaysia and Canada are listed.


See also Chinese Clan & Family Histories
Top 10 Chinese Surnames + Origins/Facts
The Complicated Chinese Family Tree
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