GGood Chinese Name

Chinese surname · rank 43

叶

叶 is read as yè.

Pinyin

yè

Script forms

Simplified 叶 · Traditional 葉

Basic meaning

to harmonize; to rhyme; leaf in simplified usage

Five element

Pending review

Origin

Time: Spring and Autumn period; Spring and Autumn tradition, 770-476 BCE

Place: Ye fief, commonly associated with today's Ye County, Henan Province

Origin note

A major Ye surname tradition traces the surname to Shen Zhuliang, the Chu official known as Ye Gong. His fief was at Ye, usually associated with today's Ye County in Henan Province. Descendants later used the place name Ye as a surname. This origin layer is separate from the modern borrowed meaning 'leaf'.

Historical figures

叶适 (Ye Shi)

1150-1223 CE · Southern Song thinker

A major thinker of the Yongjia school, associated with practical statecraft and scholarship.

叶剑英 (Ye Jianying)

1897-1986 CE · military and political figure

A twentieth-century Chinese military and political figure.

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