Li

Chinese family of painters. They were descended on the paternal side from Gaozu (reg 618-26), the first emperor of the Tang dynasty. (1) Li Sixun and his son, (2) Li Zhaodao, are acknowledged as the foremost exponents of the Tang-period (AD 618-907) Blue-and-green (qingl?) manner of landscape painting, sometimes called the Gold-and-green ( jinbi) style because of the gold highlights used together with azurite blue and malachite green; traditional Chinese texts further credit them with the invention of the technique (see also CHINA,

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Chemical symbol, lithium.

For other uses, see Li.

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Li Family Name
Language of origin	Chinese
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with "Li"

Li is a common transliteration of several Chinese family names, including that of 李 (pinyin: Lǐ), the most common Chinese family name and Korean family name of Lee(李). Alternate Romanizations include Lai (Cantonese for the surname 黎), Lý (Vietnam), Lí (Vietnam), Lee (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore), Lei (Macau), Lie (Indonesia), and Lê (Vietnam). Taken collectively, these surnames make Li the most common surname in the world,^{[citation needed]} outstripping the most common Western surname, Smith. Surnames transliterated as Li:

• 黎 (pinyin: Lí)
• 李, 理 and 里 (pinyin: Lǐ)
• 郦, 酈, 栗, 厉, 厲, 莉, and 利 (pinyin: Lì)

According to an unofficial count undertaken by the American company infoUSA, "Li" is the most common surname found in Canadian telephone directories.^[1]

See also

• Lee (Korean name)
• Li (李)
• Lì (利) (surname)
• Lí (黎) (surname)
• Li Siye

References

1. ^ "Common surnames". CBC.ca (CBC News). 2007-07-26. http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/name-change/common-surnames.html. Retrieved 2008-01-27. "...the source is a Nebraska-based company called infoUSA, which claims to have put together a directory of every telephone listing in Canada." 

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