Sheng (surname)

Sheng (盛)
Pronunciation Shèng (Mandarin)
Shing (Cantonese)
Language(s) Chinese
Origin
Language(s) Old Chinese
Other names
Variant(s) Shing

Sheng[1] is the Mandarin pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is romanized as Shing in Cantonese. Sheng is listed 146th in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames.[2] As of 2008, it is the 175th most common surname in China, shared by 700,000 people.[3]

Notable people

References

  1. The approximate English pronunciation is /ʃəŋ/.
  2. "百家姓" [Hundred Family Surnames] (in Chinese). Guoxue. Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  3. 中国最新300大姓排名(2008) [300 most common surnames in China (2008)] (in Chinese). Taiwan.cn. 2009-01-06. Retrieved 2014-10-28.
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