Xue
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Xue ([ɕɥé]) is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 薛 (Xuē). It is romanized as Hsüeh in Wade-Giles. In Hong Kong and Macau it is usually romanized through its Cantonese pronunciation Sit. In Korean, it corresponds to Seol (설), in Japanese to Setsu and in Vietnamese to Tiết. in Indonesia and Netherlands, it is commonly spelled as Siek. According to the 2010 Chinese Census, it is the 76th most common surname in China, a sharp decline from 48th in 1982. In a study by geneticist Yuan Yida on the distribution of Chinese surnames, people who carry the name Xue are dispersed throughout the country and is most heavily concentrated in Shanxi. It is the 68th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.[1]
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Pronunciation | Xuē (Pinyin) Sih (Pe̍h-ōe-jī) |
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Language(s) | Chinese |
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Language(s) | Old Chinese |
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Variant form(s) | Hsüeh (Wade-Giles, Taiwan) Sit (Cantonese) Sih,Siek (Hokkien, Teochew) Setsu (Japanese) Seol (Korean) Tiết (Vietnamese) |