GGood Chinese Name

Chinese surname · rank 94

戴

戴 is read as dài.

Pinyin

dài

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 戴

Basic meaning

wear on the head; support

Five element

Fire

Origin

Time: Spring and Autumn Song posthumous-title tradition; Spring and Autumn tradition, 770-476 BCE

Place: Song state, centered around today's Shangqiu, Henan Province

Origin note

A major Dai surname tradition traces the surname to Song Dai Gong. Descendants used the posthumous title Dai as a surname. This is a title-name origin, not the everyday verb 'to wear'.

Historical figures

戴震 (Dai Zhen)

1724-1777 CE · Qing scholar

A major Qing evidential scholar and philosopher.

戴叔伦 (Dai Shulun)

732-789 CE · Tang poet

A Tang poet and official.

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