Ching
See also: ching and Ch'ing
English
Etymology 1
From Cantonese 成 (sing4, seng4, cing4).
Proper noun
Ching (plural Chings)
- A surname from Cantonese.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Ching is the 4772nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 7417 individuals. Ching is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (67.12%) and Mixed Race (16.03%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ching”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 327.
Etymology 2
From Mandarin 清 (Qīng), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻing¹.[1]
Proper noun
Ching
- Alternative form of Qing
- 1966, Mao, Tse-tung, Poems of Mao Tse-tung, Eastern Horizon Press, OCLC 477157889, page 63:
- Parakeet Isle or Yingwuchou: in the middle of the river to the south-west of Hanyang. It disappeared during the Ming period to re-emerge in the Ching dynasty in Kang Hsi’s reign. It became famous in the Han dynasty when a great feast was held there and parakeets brought in.
- 1971, Lee, Teng-hui, Intersectoral Capital Flows in the Economic Development of Taiwan 1895-1960, →ISBN, OCLC 1083051193, page 33:
- More skillful farming practices, particularly in rice cultivation, were brought in after the Ching occupation in 1683.
- 2012 November 27, Lim, Kevin; Eveline Danubrata, “No eternal rest for the dead in crowded Singapore”, in Elaine Lies, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 15 October 2022:
- Photographer Shawn Danker, who recently held a photo exhibition to generate awareness about Bukit Brown, cites as an example pre-independent Singapore’s links to the Nationalists who overthrew the Ching Dynasty in 1911.
- 2016 August 9, “Ellen Tan Drake”, in AP News, archived from the original on 10 October 2022:
- Ellen was born in 1927 in Beijing, China, to a prominent Ching dynasty family of scholars and diplomats. Her grandmother on her father’s side was a niece of the Empress Dowager, and her grandfather on her mother’s side was the ambassador to the court of Queen Victoria of England.
- 2022 February 2, “Talking 'Gangsters of Capitalism' with Jonathan Katz: podcast and transcript”, in MSNBC, archived from the original on 3 February 2022:
- At the end of Butler's military career, he goes back to China one more time and this is during sort of China's warlord period, the Qing Dynasty has been overthrown. Largely, they weren't helped by the fact that this invasion of which Butler took part in 1900 against the Boxer Rebellion happened, but the Ching Dynasty has fallen. There's fighting going on over control of China and this is the beginning of the Chinese Civil War, which is between the communists and the nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek.
- 2022 February 11, Lindorff, Dave, “How Can US Accuse Any Nation of Violating ‘Rules-Based International Order’? – OpEd”, in Eurasia Review, ISSN 2330-717X, archived from the original on 11 February 2022:
- China has never acknowledged the independence of Taiwan, which for 50 years prior to the end of World War II had been a colony of Japan, a spoil of victory in the China-Japan War won by Japan against the Ching dynasty in 1895.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ching.
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References
- Qing dynasty, Wade-Giles romanization Ch’ing, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Chinese
Pronunciation
Noun
Ching
- (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang) Alternative form of 師兄／师兄 (si1 hing1).
Tagalog
Etymology
From either Hokkien 莊／庄 (Chng) or Cantonese 鄭／郑 (Zeng6), via English Ching.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃiŋ/, [ˈt͡ʃiŋ]
Proper noun
Ching
- a surname from Min Nan of Hokkien Chinese origin or a surname from Cantonese of Cantonese Chinese origin, notably borne by:
- Joyce Ching, Chinese-Filipino actress and commercial model.
Statistics
According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Ching is the 143rd most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 44,210 individuals.
See also
- Cheng
- Chung
- Chong