Qin (surname)
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Not to be confused with Tan / Qin (surname 覃).
Qín ([tɕʰǐn]) (秦) is a common Chinese surname. "Qin" is the hanyu pinyin romanization of the surname for Mandarin, the common dialect of China; other romanizations of the surname include Chin and Jin in Mandarin, Ceon and Cheun in Cantonese, and Tần (or Tan when commonly written without accent in ASCII) in Vietnamese. People with this surname are most commonly found in Henan, Shaanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Hubei and Hebei.[1] It is the 18th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.
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Language(s) | Chinese |
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Language(s) | Old Chinese |
Word/name | State of Qin |
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Derivative(s) | Chin |
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Other surnames romanized as "Qin" include 欽/钦.