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Chinese Last Names, What are the common ones?
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post Dec 3 2004, 02:06 PM
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I know some common ones, such as: Chan, Chang, Ching, Cheung, Wong, Wang, Wing, Wen, Lee, and Huang (my gf's last name).

Is Lim a Chinese last name? There's this girl I spot whose name is Sokona Lim, her first name sounds Japanese but her last name doesn't. So I'm just wondering...
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- devilish   Chinese Last Names   Dec 3 2004, 02:06 PM
- - Yuje   QUOTE (devilish @ Dec 3 2004, 12:06 PM)I know...   Dec 3 2004, 02:43 PM
|- - Chinese DesertFox   QUOTE (Yuje @ Dec 3 2004, 03:43 PM)QUOTE (dev...   Dec 3 2004, 02:43 PM
- - Yuje   My surname sucks in popularity. It's ranked in...   Dec 3 2004, 02:52 PM
|- - supernovasp   QUOTE (Yuje @ Dec 3 2004, 03:52 PM)My surname...   Dec 3 2004, 02:55 PM
|- - MING-LOYALIST   QUOTE (supernovasp @ Dec 3 2004, 03:55 PM)QUO...   Dec 3 2004, 05:24 PM
||- - HikaruVenus   QUOTE (MING-LOYALIST @ Dec 4 2004, 07:24...   Dec 3 2004, 10:02 PM
|- - ham_let   lim is a chinese name... there are LOTS of lims......   Dec 3 2004, 09:14 PM
- - Phil_Huynh   umm i think mine is wang cause i think huynh is vi...   Dec 3 2004, 04:04 PM
- - ChuonCheat_Khmer   QUOTE Sokona Lim she is most likely a sino-cambodi...   Dec 3 2004, 04:07 PM
- - Manun   Lol, ma mom said Lin and Lim is the same surname. ...   Dec 3 2004, 05:22 PM
- - 葉兆峰   Mine is Ye, Its more of a southern surname? A grea...   Dec 3 2004, 05:52 PM
|- - supernovasp   QUOTE (葉兆峰 @ Dec 3 2004,...   Dec 3 2004, 09:17 PM
- - Titanium   My last name is Chow. Cantonese style   Dec 3 2004, 06:39 PM
- - JustINtroverted   My is Choi.. like VEGETABLE!.. no.. it's t...   Dec 3 2004, 06:50 PM
|- - 直隸總督   QUOTE (JustINtroverted @ Dec 3 2004, 05:50 PM...   Dec 4 2004, 06:11 PM
|- - Emperor   QUOTE (直隸總督 @ Dec...   Dec 4 2004, 09:59 PM
|- - 直隸總督   QUOTE (Emperor @ Dec 4 2004, 08:59 PM)QUOTE (...   Dec 4 2004, 10:17 PM
- - ham_let   i like this site. it's in english for ppl who ...   Dec 3 2004, 09:20 PM
- - supernovasp   I know a lot of Lam's. A lot of Vietnamese has...   Dec 3 2004, 09:23 PM
- - liu   I never herd of a chinese with the last name of Li...   Dec 3 2004, 11:08 PM
- - technolickingkitty   how about Lin? is that chinese ?   Dec 3 2004, 11:26 PM
- - UrbanPoet   my xgf was Xayavong.... she is "ciew chow...   Dec 3 2004, 11:32 PM
- - UnZipped   Lim=Lin=Ling=Lam. This surname is very common in ...   Dec 4 2004, 12:22 AM
- - 葉兆峰   Rong? Oh Really? I thought Diep was just Dep. Wow...   Dec 4 2004, 12:30 AM
- - devilish   Is "Chong" also a Chinese surname?   Dec 4 2004, 03:21 AM
|- - UnZipped   it is. I think that Chong=Zhang.   Dec 4 2004, 04:16 AM
- - lance   my mums surname is lam   Dec 4 2004, 06:13 PM
- - Theta   That's a common surname.   Dec 4 2004, 06:13 PM
- - lance   but my surname is wong whats yours?   Dec 4 2004, 06:15 PM
- - Theta   Mine's Au. Pronounced "Ow!"   Dec 4 2004, 06:19 PM
- - lance   oo, u born HK or canada?or somewhere else?   Dec 4 2004, 06:20 PM
- - Rappapa   7th place. What a lucky number   Dec 4 2004, 10:16 PM
- - Emperor   Hmm, I don't think 財 is a surname.   Dec 4 2004, 10:19 PM
|- - 直隸總督   QUOTE (Emperor @ Dec 4 2004, 09:19 PM)Hmm, I ...   Dec 4 2004, 10:20 PM
- - Rappapa   Vegetable Choi and Gong Hei Fat Choi are different...   Dec 4 2004, 10:22 PM
|- - Emperor   QUOTE (直隸總督)I think Ju...   Dec 4 2004, 10:32 PM
- - blatant   Wei, fourth tone, the one with the word "mons...   Dec 4 2004, 10:54 PM
- - devilish   So "Ching" and "Chong" are bot...   Dec 4 2004, 11:17 PM
|- - Emperor   QUOTE (devilish @ Dec 5 2004, 06:17 AM)So ...   Dec 4 2004, 11:21 PM
- - 葉兆峰   Ching is not a surname. CHong, as stated in previo...   Dec 5 2004, 12:24 AM
|- - UnZipped   QUOTE (葉兆峰 @ Dec 5 2004,...   Dec 6 2004, 07:28 AM
- - GaleHarold   Great. My last name is in one of the top 5. I f...   Dec 6 2004, 04:50 PM


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