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项 Xiang — a rarer surname
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| Pinyin | Xiang |
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| Strokes | 9 |
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| Commonness | outside the top 100 |
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| Type | single-character |
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Where the surname comes from
A surname meaning 'neck', forever linked with the tragic hero Xiang Yu.
Why it scores this way
Easy to say67
Mostly easy. The only friction is x, ian, which English speakers usually turn into something close.
Recognised in China49
Outside the top 100 — distinctive, but some people will ask you to repeat or write it.
Easy to write75
9 strokes — a little practice and it flows.
People who carried this name
- Xiang Yu — Warring States-era warlord (232–202 BC), the 'Hegemon-King of Western Chu'.
- Xiang Liang — Uncle of Xiang Yu, Qin dynasty rebel leader who raised an army at Wu and became the de facto head of the Chu independence movement.
- Xiang Ying — Chinese Communist military leader, political commissar of the New Fourth Army, executed in 1941 during the Wannan Incident.
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