Chinese (Cantonese) Submitted Surnames

Cantonese names are used in southeast China (including Hong Kong and Macau). Note that depending on the Chinese characters used these names can have many other meanings besides those listed here. See also about Chinese names.

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- example: *oo* will match names which contain oo
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- example: __z will match names which have two letters and then z

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- example: (s)(s)ra will match names which have two syllables and then the sound rah
(c) will match a consonant
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(v) will match a vowel
(p) will match a plosive or stop consonant
(f) will match a fricative consonant
(n) will match a nasal consonant
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AU 歐 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of OU.

AU-YEUNG 歐陽 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of OUYANG.

CHING 程 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of CHENG.

CHOI 蔡 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of CAI.

CHOW 周 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of ZHOU.

CHUNG 張 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of ZHANG.

DENG Chinese (Cantonese)

FOK 霍 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of HUO.

FUNG 馮 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of FENG.

HEUNG 向 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of XIANG.

HO 何 Taiwanese, Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of HE as well as an alternate transcription commonly used in Taiwan.

HUI 許 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of XU.

KAN 簡, 简 Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Hokkien)
Cantonese and Hokkien romanization of JIAN.

KUENG 鄺, 邝 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of KUANG.

KWONG 鄺 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of KUANG.

LEONG 梁 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of LIANG.

LEUNG 梁 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of LIANG.

LEW 刘 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of LIU.

LIO Chinese (Cantonese)

LOU Chinese (Cantonese)

LUM 林 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of LIN.

MAK 麥 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of MAI.

MOK 莫 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of MO.

NGAI 魏 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of WEI.

NGAI 倪 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of NI.

OR Chinese (Cantonese)

OU Chinese (Cantonese)
During the Spring and Autumn period (722–481 bc), a prince of the state of Yue was enfeoffed a region that included a mountain the name of which contained the Chinese character for Ou. Many of the prince’s descendants adopted this character as their surname... [more]

POON 潘 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of PAN (2).

PUN 潘 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of PAN (2).

SHIU 邵 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Shao.

SHUM 瀋 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of SHEN.

SING 程 German, Chinese (Cantonese), Indian
German: probably a variant of SENG. ... [more]

SO Chinese (Cantonese)
A Cantonese form of SU.

SUEN 孫 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of SUN.

SZETO 司徒 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of SITU.

TSANG 曾 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of ZENG.

TSE 謝 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of XIE.

TSO 曹 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of CAO.

TSOI 蔡 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of CAI.

WO Chinese (Cantonese)

WOO 胡 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of HU.

YICK 易 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of YI.

YIP 葉 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of YE.

YIU 姚 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of YAO.

YUNG 容, 翁, 揚 Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Rong or Weng.

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