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56 ethnic groups of China

Started by Genghis_Khan , Apr 14 2006 02:08 AM

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#16 Guest_felixthecat_*

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Posted 03 June 2006 - 04:41 PM

there s 1 unique surname among the Dais ..."刀" Dao1

I personally know 1 ..

Dang .... finally someone here could come up with this surname.

This is also family name of wife of playboy younger brother of Daili Kingdom's Emperor in one of best written JinYong's novels,she was named Dao Bai Fung.

Edited by felixthecat, 04 June 2006 - 04:56 PM.

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#17 Genghis_Khan

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Posted 05 June 2006 - 02:41 AM

Dang .... finally someone here could come up with this surname.

This is also family name of wife of playboy younger brother of Daili Kingdom's Emperor in one of best written JinYong's novels,she was named Dao Bai Fung.

So, she was Dai ? Dai is Thai rite ?

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#18 Guest_kirby3691_*

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Posted 05 June 2006 - 02:42 PM

So, she was Dai ? Dai is Thai rite ?

This female character is supposedly of local aboriginal heritage according to the novel,author didn't specifically identified her origin of Dai.

I leave it to next posters to answer whether Dai is relate to Thais or not.

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#19 Guest_hihi_*

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Posted 05 June 2006 - 03:35 PM

Duan last name of the Dali?

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#20 Jade Phoenix

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Posted 24 October 2006 - 03:38 PM

It would be interesting if we can collect the list here, so that we know what tribal/ethnic people group commonly used of surname OR just tell us your surname and where from..

Below is a list of Hmong/Miao clans outside of China. There are 19 Hmong clans living outside of China, with 17 of them being common surnames.

01 Cha/Chang/Chai (Tsab 張)
02 Cheng (Tsheej)
03 Chue/Tsue (Tsu)
04 Kong/Song (Koos)
05 Kue (Kwm)
06 Khang/Kha (Khaab)
07 Fang (Faaj)
08 Hang (Haam)
09 Her/Herr/Heu (Hawj 何)
10 Lao/Lo/Lor (Lauj 劉)
11 Lee/Ly (Lis 李)
12 Moua/Mua (Muas 莫)
13 Pha/Phang (Phaj)
14 Tang
15 Thao/Thoj/Thor/Thow/Torr (Thoj)
16 Va/Van/Vang/Vangh (Vaj 王)
17 Vu/Vue (Vwj)
18 Xiong/Shong/Siong (Xyooj 熊)
19 Ya/Yan/Yang (Yaj 楊)

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#21 Suren911

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Posted 29 October 2006 - 10:11 PM

Mongols have adopted quite a variety of lastnames. I'm not sure if there's a popular ones among Mongols. I've met a few with the lastname Jin, or gold, for the Golden clan (nothing to do with ethnic Koreans), and some simply adopt rare and phoenitic names that are similar with their original names like "Lo" "Bo." Some of those characters you can't find in the dictionary. Some were created to give to them to signify their foreign ethnicity. My grandmother's is Yun4.

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Posted 31 October 2006 - 09:34 AM

Below is a list of Hmong/Miao clans outside of China. There are 19 Hmong clans living outside of China, with 17 of them being common surnames.

Somehow almost all them look to have "Chinese" equivalents to me... though I am not sure whether the link is real.
E.g. Tsheej ~ 程 Phaj ~ 龐 Thoj ~ 陶

Edited by qrasy, 31 October 2006 - 09:35 AM.

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#23 resident:alien

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Posted 14 November 2006 - 09:02 PM

Somehow almost all them look to have "Chinese" equivalents to me... though I am not sure whether the link is real.
E.g. Tsheej ~ 程 Phaj ~ 龐 Thoj ~ 陶

(OJ) <--- that's the "romanized" way of spelling it. the letter at the end of each surname (mentioned in your post above) indicate the tone as the Hmong/Miao language is tonal.

Thoj = Thao (americanized)...TH is pronounced like a T-sound...like (TH)AILAND.
Phonetically, it sounds like...T (like T in tiger) and AW (like "aw" in jaw)...so together...TAW.

Were it spelled "thov" instead, it would mean...to beg. It is lower in tone.

I have a link to hear the audio after you've typed the word. Unfortunately, the text-reader is down temporarily.

[ http://voice.hmongmedia.com/ ] via [ http://www.hmong.org ] >> go to hmong text reader...

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