Dai (surname)

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Dai ()
Pronunciation Dài (Mandarin)
Language(s) Chinese

Dai is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname also written as Chinese: ; pinyin: Dài. It is a common surnames in China and throughout the world. It is ranked 96 within the top 100 of the list of common Chinese surnames in China derived from a report on the household registrations released by the ChineseMinistry of Public Security on April 24, 2007.[1][2][3]

Notable people with this surname

  • Dai Xu, a Chinese author, social commentator, and the president of Marine Institute For Security And Cooperation
  • Dai Sijie, a Chinese–French author and filmmaker
  • Dai Yun, a retired Chinese female badminton player

References

  1. "公安部统计:'王'成中国第一大姓 有9288万人 [Public Security Bureau Statistics: 'Wang' Found China's #1 'Big Family', Includes 92.88m People]." 24 Apr 2007. Accessed 27 Mar 2012.(Chinese)
  2. Xinhua News. 24 Apr 2007. "中国姓氏排行 [Chinese Surname Ranking]". op. cit. "天下第一大姓——王 [Tianxia's #1 'Big Family'—Wang]." 14 Nov 2007. Accessed 26 Mar 2012.
  3. Baidu Baike. "新百家姓[The New Hundred Family Surnames]". (Chinese)


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