Talk:Niu

Alt form
@Mlgc1998 Is really an alt form of ? They seem phonetically distant. Ysrael214 (talk) 05:56, 12 May 2024 (UTC)


 * @Ysrael214 Oh, this surname is not very common among Hokkien families (at least those from around Quanzhou area), so far at least that I've seen throughout the years in ph, but among Cantonese families, they seem to be more present, hence there are common Chinese Filipino surnames like  that is more likely from Cantonese, but in neighboring countries like Malaysia and Singapore and maybe Indonesia, there are chinese people there surnamed, but I haven't seen that surname in ph that much besides rarely, which it seems  is supposedly from  or , which if it existed more in Quanzhou Hokkien speaking areas, it would've been , which there was one time before I think I saw someone in ph surnamed like "Niu", but nonetheless seemed like a rare surname. Certain surnames like  (Sy/See),  (Dy/Dee/Lee),  (Tan),  (Lim),  (Chua), etc. seem to be more common in around the area from the coast of Quanzhou to Xiamen, which perhaps  and  are endemic to[?]. In Cantonese areas, there are certain surnames endemic to them too like  /   and etc. This was explained to me before by some Chindos. Mlgc1998 (talk) 06:13, 12 May 2024 (UTC)