Chan (Cantonese for 詹 or 占 etc.)

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Chan is the Cantonese romanization of the Chinese surname 詹 (and sometimes 占), corresponding to the Mandarin romanization Zhan.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Chan (Cantonese for 詹 or 占 etc.) canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (25)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese surname
canAlsoRomanizePronunciationOf Cantonese reading of 占
category Cantonese-language surnames
Surnames of Chinese origin
correspondsToMandarinPinyin Zhan
correspondsToSurnameCharacter
hasGenderAssociation unisex
hasTransliterationStandard Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanization
surface form: Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation

Yale Cantonese
surface form: Yale Cantonese romanization
hasVariantRomanization Cham
Zhan
isSurnameOfOrigin Chinese
languageContext Cantonese
nameOrderInChinese family name before given name
romanizationSystem Cantonese
romanizesPronunciationOf Cantonese reading of 詹
scriptOfOriginalSurname Chinese characters
sharesRomanizationPatternWith other Cantonese surnames ending in -an
sometimesCorrespondsToSurnameCharacter
usedByEthnicGroup Han Chinese
usedInRegion Guangdong Province
surface form: Guangdong

Hong Kong, China
surface form: Hong Kong

Macau
Overseas Chinese communities
writingSystem Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Zhan hasAlternativeRomanization Chan (Cantonese for 詹 or 占 etc.)