Lí (surname 黎)
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For other Chinese surnames also romanized as "Li", see Li (surname 李).
Lí (Chinese: 黎) is a Chinese surname.[1][2] It mostly appears in Central and South China (including Hong Kong and Macao) where it is transliterated as Lai or Lei (from Cantonese).
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Language(s) | Chinese |
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Language(s) | Old Chinese |
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Variant form(s) | Lai, Lei |
Derivative(s) | Lê (Vietnamese) |
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It is around the 81st most common in Mainland China.
In Vietnam, it is spelled Lê and is one of the four most common surnames among ethnic Vietnamese people.
It is listed 262nd in the Song dynasty classic Hundred Family Surnames.[3]
Some Hlai people in Hainan Island also use Lí as a surname.[4]