GGood Chinese Name

Chinese surname · rank 424

终

终 is read as zhōng.

Pinyin

zhōng

Script forms

Simplified 终 · Traditional 終

Basic meaning

end; finally, in the end

Five element

Earth

Origin

Time: Xia-dynasty tradition, c. 2070-1600 BCE

Place: Gaoyang / Zhuanxu and Lu Zhong legendary lineage context; Xia court official Zhong Gu tradition; Nanyang and Jinan commandery notes

Origin note

Zhong/终 is presented as an ancestor-name surname, not as the ordinary word end. One source-backed layer traces it to Lu Zhong in the Gaoyang / Zhuanxu descendant line, with descendants taking the Zhong character from his name. Another layer derives it from Zhong Gu, a Xia-period grand historian or record official. The page keeps both ancestor-name layers separate from the dictionary meaning of final or end.

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