GGood Chinese Name

Chinese surname · rank 494

冶

冶 is read as yě.

Pinyin

yě

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 冶

Basic meaning

smelt, fuse metals; cast, found

Five element

Metal

Origin

Time: Zhou official-title tradition, 1046-256 BCE

Place: Zhou official-title layer is not pinned to one locality; later Western Region / Qinghai Ledu, Minhe and Milagou tusi layer is recorded separately.

Origin note

Ye is verified as a multi-layer surname. One layer is occupational and official: Zhou-period Ye officials responsible for metalworking and weapons gave rise to a surname line. A later northwestern ethnic layer traces some Ye families to Western Region Uyghur or Hui tusi contexts, including a fourth-generation tusi Yexiang whose name was associated with the Ye surname, and another recorded bestowed-surname layer in the Sayyid Ajall genealogy tradition. The page keeps these layers separate.

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