What is a surname? What about two-character surnames, three-character surnames, four-character surnames and nine-character surnames?

Another example: you asked Zhang San what his last name was, and Zhang San said, my last name is Zhang. Zhang is a word, a single surname.

Two-character surnames are surnames with two characters, such as Sima, Nalan and Nangong.

For example, Sima Qian and Sima Xiangru are both surnamed Sima, which is a two-word surname.

Three-character surnames are surnames consisting of three characters, such as "Nryana", "Guo Buluo" and "Shen Muli".

For example, Guo Buluo Runqi's surname is Guo Buluo. Cow Gollum and the gentry were named Cow Gollum.

etc

Four-character surname. That is, the surname has four words, such as "Aisingiorro" and "Ibrahim".

..... For example, Aisinjueluo Nurhachi's surname is Aisingiorro.

The Dictionary of Surnames in China (edited by Yuan Yida and Du Ruofu) published by Beijing Education Science Publishing House 1996 shows that there are 1 1939 surnames recorded in Chinese characters by various nationalities in ancient and modern China, in addition to 3 136 surnames with different translations and variants. This is the latest statistics on the number of surnames in China so far.

These include:

Single surname: 53 13.

Two-character surname: 43 1 1 Sima.

Three-character surname: 16 15 Nryana.

Four-character surname: 57 1 Aisingiorro.

Five-character surnames: 96.

Six-character surnames: 22

Seven-character surname: seven.

Eight surname: 3

Nine-character surname: 1 Hanshan Temple Wu Muyun.