This English version was translated from the Chinese original with AI assistance. The Chinese text is authoritative.
In the course of the development of Chinese writing, many surnames acquired distinctive pronunciations. For example: 朴 is read piáo, not pǔ; 仇 is read qiú, not chóu; 单 is read shàn, not dān; 解 is read xiè, not jiě… Just imagine how embarrassing it would be if a teacher calling the roll, or someone announcing a list at a meeting, mispronounced a person’s surname. It pays to look carefully at the surname pronunciations below.
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