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Chinese surname · rank 399

锺

锺 is read as zhōng.

Pinyin

zhōng

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 锺

Basic meaning

cup, glass, goblet

Five element

Earth

Origin

Time: Spring and Autumn tradition, 770-476 BCE

Place: Zhongli traditions around present Fengyang / Linhuaiguan and Bengbu, Anhui; Yingchuan and Jingling commandery prestige geography; later major distribution in Guangdong, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Guangxi, Hong Kong, and Hakka / She contexts

Origin note

Zhong/锺 is handled as the project’s row form for the old surname graph 鍾, commonly simplified today as 钟 in mainland usage. The main surname-source layer connects Zhong with Zhongli/鍾離, a place or fief name in Spring and Autumn surname traditions, with descendants later using either the compound Zhongli or the single surname Zhong. Other sources add Song / Zi-lineage and Chu-related layers, so the page presents Zhong as multi-source rather than a single-founder surname.

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