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Etymology 1

 * state's name → toponym

Most of the people with this surname in Mainland China were originally with the surname and was a result of.

Definitions

 * 1) to replace; to take the place of
 * 2) to act for; to do something on behalf of
 * 3) to act as; to be the acting (president etc.)
 * 4) generation; age group
 * 5) historical period; era
 * 6) date; age
 * 7) dynasty; line of rulers
 * 8)  era

Descendants
Others:

Etymology 2
From.

Definitions

 * 1)  affair; matter

Noun

 * 1)  substitution
 * 2)  price, cost, charge
 * 3)  shiro, a unit of land

Etymology 3
From.

Noun

 * 1) price
 * 2) generation of a family
 * 3) reign of a royal
 * 4) decade
 * 5) era

Counter

 * 1) generation of a royal family
 * 2) era, age, decade

Suffix

 * 1) charge, fare, rate, fee, price, rent
 * 2)  -ies, -hundreds
 * 1)  -ies, -hundreds
 * 1)  -ies, -hundreds

Etymology
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