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Surname Chin

陳 · 錢

Chin is a Chinese surname, the Hakka spelling of 陳 (Chen) and the Cantonese spelling of 錢 (Qian).

Characters for the surname Chin

The spelling Chin is common in Hakka and Cantonese romanization.

  • 陳

    to exhibit, display; to explain; old; surname

    Hakka chhṳ̀n / Mandarin chén

    attested

  • 錢

    money; coins; surname

    Cantonese cin4 / Mandarin qián

陳 all spellings of chén錢 all spellings of qián

Possible characters for Chin

Chin 陳 chén · Hakka 錢 qián · Cantonese
The spelling Chin can stand for 2 characters. The spelling alone does not show which one a family uses.
CharacterMandarin reading · romanization of the spelling
陳chén · Hakka
錢qián · Cantonese

Other spellings of the same character

  • Tan 陳Hokkien, Teochew, Mandarin (pinyin)
  • Chan 陳Cantonese, Hokkien
  • Chen 陳Mandarin (pinyin)
  • Chun 陳Cantonese
  • Ding 陳Foochow, Mandarin (pinyin)
  • Tang 陳Teochew, Cantonese, Mandarin (pinyin)
  • Ting 陳Foochow, Cantonese

About the surname Chin

Chin spells the surname 陳 (Mandarin Chen) from the Hakka reading chhṳ̀n; in Hokkien the character is spelled Tan and in Cantonese Chan. 陳 is recorded for Malaysians with this spelling. The same spelling also stands for 錢 (Mandarin Qian), from the Cantonese reading cin4, so the character depends on the family. JPN records peak in the 1940s with 875 baby boys.

Chin in official JPN data

1940s
Boy: 875 · 5.1%
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Chin as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Chinese table. In these records the name JPN publishes is often the surname. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: 陳 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: 錢 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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