Hundred Family Surnames
- Publisher: XUAN WEIWU
- Genre: Education
- Released: 28 Feb, 2011
- Size: 23.5 MB
- Price: FREE!
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Description
The Hundred Family Surnames (Chinese: 百家姓; pinyin: Bǎijiāxìng) is a classic Chinese text composed of common surnames in ancient China. The book was composed in the early Song Dynasty.[1] It originally contained 411 surnames, but was later expanded to 504.[1] Of these, 444 are single-character surnames, and 60 are double-character surnames. About 800 names have been derived from the original ones.[2]Reading HundredFamily Surnames. Good tools for chinese parent.