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A surname from Cantonese.

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    A surname from Cantonese.

Etymology

From Cantonese 程 (cing4).

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    A surname from Hokkien.

Etymology

From Hokkien 莊 /庄 (Chng).

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    Variant of QingAlternative form of Qing.

    General Li Shu-ch’eng was born at Ch’ien-chiang Hsien, Hupei province, in 1873 and was a salaried licentiate or Linsheng in the Ching Dynasty.

    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.

    More skillful farming practices, particularly in rice cultivation, were brought in after the Ching occupation in 1683.

    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.

Etymology

From Mandarin 清 (Qīng), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻing¹.

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    Variant of Chingakham surname of Meitei originAlternative form of Chingakham surname of Meitei origin

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    Variant of Chingangbam surname of Meitei originAlternative form of Chingangbam surname of Meitei origin

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    Variant of Chingshubam surname of Meitei originAlternative form of Chingshubam surname of Meitei origin

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    Variant of Chingtham surname of Meitei originAlternative form of Chingtham surname of Meitei origin

Etymology

From Manipuri ꯆꯤꯡ (cing).

Forms

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Chings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).