Chinese compound surname | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-02-08

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00:00:48 Compound surnames
00:01:02 See also
00:01:17 External links



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A Chinese compound surname is a Chinese surname using more than one character. Many of these surnames derive from noble and official titles, professions, place names and other areas, to serve a purpose. Some are originally non-Han, while others were created by joining two one-character family names. Only a few of these names (e.g. Ouyang [歐陽/欧阳], Shangguan [上官], Sima [司馬/司马], Situ [司徒] and Xiahou [夏侯]) have survived in modern times with Ouyang (歐陽/欧阳) appearing most frequently. Many clans eventually took on a single-character surname for various reasons. Chinese surnames with more than two characters are not of Han origin (e.g. Manchurian or Mongolian), and are becoming exceedingly rare to find, but are still in use today.