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Surname Chia

謝

Chia is a Chinese surname, a Hokkien, Teochew or Hakka spelling of 謝, which as a word means 'to thank'.

Characters for the surname Chia

The spelling Chia is common in Hokkien, Teochew and Hakka romanization.

  • 謝

    to thank; to decline; surname

    Hokkien chiā / Teochew zia7 / Hakka chhia / Mandarin xiè

    attested

謝 all spellings of xiè

Possible characters for Chia

Chia 謝 xiè · Hokkien · Hakka
In our records the spelling Chia stands for 謝.
CharacterMandarin reading · romanization of the spelling
謝xiè · Hokkien · Hakka

Other spellings of the same character

  • Cheah 謝Hokkien, Teochew
  • Seah 謝Hokkien, Teochew
  • Shia 謝Hokkien, Teochew

About the surname Chia

Chia is a surname spelling of 謝 (simplified 谢, Mandarin Xie). It matches the surname readings in Hokkien (chiā), Teochew (zia7) and Hakka (chhia). 谢 is recorded in public data for Malaysians with this spelling. As a word, 謝 means 'to thank' or 'to decline'; what a surname means depends on the characters a family uses.

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: 謝 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 謝 · mdbg.net · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: Chia (English surname) · en.wiktionary.org · romanization

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