Xuan (surname)

Not to be confused with Xun (surname).
Xuan (宣)
Pronunciation Xuān (Mandarin)
Language(s) Chinese
Origin
Language(s) Old Chinese
Other names
Variant(s) Hsüan, Hsuan

Xuan ([ɕɥɛ́n])[nb 1] is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is romanized Hsüan in Wade–Giles. Xuan is the 178th surname in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames.[1] It is not among the top 300 most common Chinese surnames.[2]

Notable people

Notes

  1. An approximation of the pronunciation in English is /ˈʃjuːæn/.

References

  1. "百家姓" [Hundred Family Surnames] (in Chinese). Guoxue. Retrieved 2014-09-16.
  2. 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 2014-09-18.
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