Yǐn (surname)
Pronunciation | Yǐn (Pinyin) |
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Language(s) | Chinese |
Origin | |
Language(s) | Chinese |
Meaning | "prefectural magistrate" |
Yin (
magistrates took on the surname Yǐn (尹) to denote their Imperial rank and favoured status. It is the 100th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.[1]
The Korean surname
Chinese character
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A 2013 study found it to be the 79th most common surname, being shared by 3,460,000 people or 0.260% of the population, with the province with the most being Hunan.[2]
Notable people
- Yiin Chii-ming (尹啟銘; born 1952) Minister of Economic Affairs of the Republic of China (2008–2009)
- Yin Fu (尹福), creator of a sub-branch of the Bagua martial art; bodyguard to the Empress Dowager Cixi and personal trainer of the Emperor.
- Yin Han and Yin Zhen, members of the judiciary of the Han dynasty.
- Yin Lin, a painter of the Tang dynasty.
- Yin Zhongke, a member of the judiciary of the Song dynasty.
- Yin Zhangsheng, a painter of the Song dynasty,
- Yin Wen, a personal tutor of princes of the Ming dynasty
- Wan Kwong (尹光, born 1949 in Saigon, Vietnam), Hong Kong pop singer, born Lui Minkwong (呂明光 and also known as Jackson Wan Kwong), a singer from Hong Kong, known as "The Temple Street Prince"
- Yin Li (politician), Governor of Sichuan (2016–)
- Wan Kuok-koi (尹國駒; born 1955), popularly known as Broken Tooth Koi, former leader of the Macau branch of the 14K Triad
- Yin Zheng (尹正, born 1986), Chinese actor
- Terence Yin Chi-wai (尹子維; born 1975), a Chinese film actor
- Samuel Yin (尹衍樑; born 1950) Taiwanese billionaire businessman and philanthropist
- Xi Yin (尹希; born 1983) a Chinese-American theoretical physicist
- Yin Mingshan (尹明善; born 1938 in Chongqing, Sichuan) a Chinese businessman, the chairman of Lifan Industrial Corporation
- INTO1, a debuted boy group of Produce Camp 2021.
References
- ISBN 0-8248-1285-9.
- ^ 中国四百大姓, 袁义达, 邱家儒, Beijing Book Co. Inc., 1 January 2013