Comments on: Why do vietnamese and korean people have chinese surnames?

By: KISS MY BUTTOX

KISS MY BUTTOX — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:59:27 +0000

asian bloodlines are mostly from china

probably has something todo with that

By: Maisee

Maisee — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:59:27 +0000

Worry about your own people.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:59:27 +0000

my last name is nguyen and middle is le

they’re both Vietnamese…

By: Tiger Lily

Tiger Lily — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:59:27 +0000

I’m not writing my last name here but it is indeed a Chinese last name but I am partly Chinese also.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:59:27 +0000

Chinese writing spread to Korea and Vietnam a long time ago and the characters were used to write surnames there; also, some Chinese surnames were passed along into Korean and Vietnamese and evolved over time.

Most Korean and Vietnamese surnames have a Chinese character that had been used to write them when those countries still wrote with Chinese characters (they don’t anymore for the most part).

By: Uh huh uh huh uh huh

Uh huh uh huh uh huh — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:59:27 +0000

Spelling is different from pronunciation.

Also aren’t there some Chinese people who live in Southeast Asia? Intermarriage? That would explain. I have a friend who’s half Vietnamese and half Chinese. Her parent’s are from Vietnam.

Disney star, Brenda Song’s last name is usually spelled ‘Xiong’ by many Hmong. But even the pronunciation of Xiong in English is wrong. And many Koreans do think she’s Korean because of how her last name is spelled.