Ye (surname)
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"Yeh" redirects here. For other uses, see Yeh (disambiguation).
Ye (traditional Chinese: 葉; simplified Chinese: 叶; pinyin: Yè) is a Chinese-language surname. It is listed 257th in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames,[1] and is the 43rd most common surname in China, with a population of 5.8 million as of 2008 and 2019.[2][3] Ye is usually romanized as "Yeh" in Taiwan based on Wade-Giles; "Yip", "Ip", "Jip" and "Yeap" in Cantonese; "Iap", "Yap", "Yapp", and "Yiapp" in Hakka and Hokkien.[4]
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Pronunciation | Yè (Mandarin) Yip (Cantonese) |
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Language(s) | Chinese, Vietnamese |
Origin | |
Language(s) | Old Chinese |
Word/name | City of Ye, State of Chu |
Meaning | leaf |
Other names | |
Variant form(s) | Yeh, Yip, Ip, Yap, Yapp, Yeap, Yiapp |
Derivative(s) | Diệp |
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