Chinese surname · rank 397

滑 is read as huá.

Pinyin

huá

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 滑

Basic meaning

slip, slide; slippery, polished

Five element

Earth

Origin

Time: Western Zhou tradition, 1046-771 BCE

Place: Hua state / Feihua tradition in the ancient Henan cultural geography, with later commandery and distribution notes around Xiangcheng and related Central Plains localities

Origin note

Hua/滑 is treated here as an old state or place-name surname, not as the adjective slippery. The main surname-book layer connects it with a Ji-surname Hua state or Feihua place-name tradition in the Spring and Autumn world; descendants later used the state or locality name as a surname. The page keeps the political-geographic origin layer distinct from the everyday smooth / slippery character meaning.

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