Xiong (surname)
Hakka) Hiōng (Gan) Hùng (Vietnamese) | |
| Cognate(s) | Mi (surname) (芈) |
|---|---|
| See also | Zhurong (祝融) |
Xiong is the
).Romanizations
熊 is also romanized as Hsiung2 in
Gan; Hùng in Vietnamese; and Xyooj in Hmong
.
Note that "Hong" and "Hung" may also refer to the unrelated surname 洪.
Distribution
熊 is the 71st most common surname in mainland China.
Although Chinese make up the largest part of America's
2000 US census.[2]
Origins
Xiong's literal meaning is "bear".
In
fief of Chu.[3] More likely, the clan name is a calque of a non-Sinitic dynasty, with modern scholarship believing the character 芈 was used to transcribe a Kam–Tai word also meaning "bear".[4]
Eventually rising to the status of
provinces formerly comprising the territory of Chu.[citation needed
]
List of persons with the surname
Xiong
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Hsiung
Hung
Song
Yoong
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References
Citations
- ^ United States Census Bureau. "Census 2000: Chinese Largest Asian Group in the United States". 4 Mar 2002. Accessed 29 Mar 2012.
- ^ United States Census Bureau. "Genealogy Data: Frequently Occurring Surnames from Census 2000". 27 Sept 2011. Accessed 29 Mar 2012.
- ^ Sima Qian. "楚世家 (House of Chu)". Records of the Grand Historian (in Chinese). Retrieved 3 December 2011.
- ^ Schuessler (2007).
Bibliography
- Schuessler, Axel (2007), ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
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