GGood Chinese Name

Chinese surname · rank 280

宣

宣 is read as xuān.

Pinyin

xuān

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 宣

Basic meaning

declare, announce, proclaim

Five element

Earth

Origin

Time: Western Zhou Zhou Xuanwang layer, Spring-and-Autumn Song Xuangong layer from 748 to 729 BCE, Spring-and-Autumn Lu Shusun Qiaoru/Xuanbo layer during Duke Cheng of Lu, Song Zhejiang-Henan-Fujian distribution layer, Ming population around 15000, and modern Zhejiang-Jiangsu-Shanghai-Anhui distribution layer

Place: Western Zhou royal context around Haojing/Xi'an; Song state context; Lu state context; Dongjun, Shiping, and Puyang commandery traditions; Zhejiang, Henan, Fujian, Shandong, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Anhui, Shanxi, and Beijing distribution contexts

Origin note

Xuan is read xun as a surname. The source-backed origin is not a place-name or dictionary-meaning story but a set of posthumous-name layers. The first line is Ji-surname: Zhou Xuanwang, personal name Ji Jing, ruled Western Zhou from 828 to 782 BCE and descendants used the posthumous name Xuan as a surname. A second line is Zi-surname from Song: Song Xuangong, personal name Zili, ruled the state of Song from 748 to 729 BCE, and descendants likewise used the posthumous name Xuan. A third line is another Ji-surname branch in Lu: Shusun Qiaoru, a high minister under Duke Cheng of Lu and a descendant in the Shusun clan, was posthumously called Xuanbo; descendants used Xuan from that posthumous title. The page keeps the Zhou royal, Song ducal, and Lu ministerial posthumous-name layers separate.

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