GGood Chinese Name

Chinese surname · rank 347

平

平 is read as píng.

Pinyin

píng

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 平

Basic meaning

flat, level, even; peaceful

Five element

Earth

Origin

Time: Spring and Autumn tradition, 770-476 BCE

Place: Qi Yan Ying / Pingzhong line and Han-state Pingyi fief tradition.

Origin note

Ping is recorded here as a surname with parallel ancestor-name and place-name traditions. One well-known layer comes from the Jiang-surname Qi line: Yan Ying, the Spring and Autumn statesman, was styled Pingzhong, and later descendants are said to have used Ping from that style name. A second major layer is the Ji-surname Han line: Han Aihou's younger son Ruo held Pingyi as a fief, and descendants used the fief name as the surname after the Warring States period. Some surname summaries add further changed-lineage or Zi-surname material, so this page does not reduce Ping to a single origin. It keeps the everyday meaning of separate from these surname-origin accounts.

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