GGood Chinese Name

Chinese surname · rank 146

邢

邢 is read as xíng.

Pinyin

xíng

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 邢

Basic meaning

ancient Xing state

Five element

Earth

Origin

Time: Western Zhou founding tradition; Spring and Autumn textual record; destroyed by Wey in 635 BCE

Place: Ancient Xing state around today's Xingtai, Hebei Province; later moved to Yiyi around today's southwest Liaocheng, Shandong Province

Origin note

Xing is a state-name surname. Dictionary and classical-text evidence point to the ancient state of Xing: a Ji-surname Zhou vassal state connected with descendants of the Duke of Zhou. Its old center is placed around today's Xingtai, Hebei; the state later moved to Yiyi and was destroyed by Wey in 635 BCE. Descendants and people of the state used Xing as a surname.

Historical figures

邢昺 (Xing Bing)

932-1010 CE · Northern Song scholar

A Northern Song scholar and classicist; Han Dian's Guoyu dictionary note gives him as an example bearer of the Xing surname.

邢邵 (Xing Shao)

496-561 CE · Northern Dynasties writer and official

A Northern Wei and Northern Qi literary official, useful as an earlier historical bearer of the Xing surname.

Sources checked

  • Han Dian: 邢 - basic meaning as surname; ancient Xing state, Ji surname, Duke of Zhou descendant tradition, Xingtai/Hebei location and destruction by Wey
  • Chinese Text Project: Zuo Zhuan, Duke Xi 24 - classical-text line identifying Xing among descendants of the Duke of Zhou
  • Han Dian: 邢 - example historical bearer Xing Bing and Xing-state explanation