Ding

Ding (Chinese: 丁; pinyin: Dīng) is the simplest written Chinese family name in existence (the only character that is simpler is "一" i.e. "one"). It is written in two strokes and is first on the Chinese surname stroke order.

Speculated origin

Ding is the 46th most common surname in China. There are four main sources of the Dings:

1) The earliest record of this surname in history was the duke of Ding during the Shang Dynasty.

2) Came from the last name of Jiang. The youngest son of Qi Tai Gong, Qi Ding Gong was a high-ranking judge during the reigns of Zhou Cheng Wang and Zhou Kang Wang. After his death, his descendents used his middle name as their last name to commemorate him.

3) During Chun Qiu period, the descendents of a judge called Song Ding Gong, also used Ding as their last name.

4) During the Three Kingdoms period, a general, Sun Kuang of the Wu kingdom, accidentally burnt the food supply and as a punishment, the king Sun Quan ordered this general to change his last name to Ding (the king did not want to bear the same last name as this guilty general.)

Hometown: North west of Dingtao in the Shandong Province of eastern China.

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Other variations

• Ting.
• Đinh, used in Vietnam

Prominent people

• Diem Lien (born Đinh Diễm Liên), singer
• Ding Feng, military general
• Ding Junhui, snooker player
• Ding Lei, founder of Netease
• Ding Ling, author
• Ding Liren, chess player
• Ding Wei, go player
• Ding Yuan, Three Kingdoms governor
• Ding Zilin, Professor, currently the leader of the political pressure group Tiananmen Mothers.
• Shayla (Đinh Bảo Châu), Vietnamese American singer
• Dinh Bo Linh (Đinh Bō Lïnh), considered the first emperor in the history of Vietnam
• Viet D. Dinh (Đinh Đồng Phụng Việt), Assistant Attorney General of the United States from 2001 to 2003
• Samuel C. C. Ting, Nobel Prize laureates in Physics, 1976.

Fictional characters

• Ding Hai, the central character of The Greed of Man, played by Adam Cheng.
• Ding Yau Kin, the main protagonist of Looking Back In Anger, played by Felix Wong.
• Ding Yau Hong, the main antagonist of Looking Back In Anger, played by Deric Wan.

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