Xue () is the

pinyin Hanyu Pinyin (), often shortened to just pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Mandarin Chinese in China, and to some extent, in Singapore and Malaysia. It is often used to teach Mandarin, normally written in Chinese fo ...

romanization of the Chinese surname 薛 (Xuē). It is romanized as Hsüeh in Wade-Giles. In

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

and

Macau Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...

it is usually romanized through its

Cantonese Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding ar ...

pronunciation Sit. In Korean, it corresponds to

Seol Seollal () is a festival and national holiday commemorating the first day of the Chinese lunisolar calendar. It is one of the most important traditional holidays in both North and South Korea. The celebration usually lasts three days: the day ...

(설), in Japanese to Setsu and in Vietnamese to Tiết. in Indonesia and Netherlands, it is commonly spelled as Siek. According to the 2010 Chinese Census, it is the 76th most common surname in China, a sharp decline from 48th in 1982. In a study by geneticist Yuan Yida on the distribution of Chinese surnames, people who carry the name Xue are dispersed throughout the country and is most heavily concentrated in

Shanxi Shanxi (; ; formerly romanised as Shansi) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region. The capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-lev ...

. It is the 68th name on the '' Hundred Family Surnames'' poem.K. S. Tom.

989 Year 989 (Roman numerals, CMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * Emperor Basil II uses his contingent of 6,000 Varangians to he ...

(1989). Echoes from Old China: Life, Legends and Lore of the Middle Kingdom. University of Hawaii Press. .

Origin

The surname traces back to the State of Xue in what is modern day

Shandong Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...

Yu the Great Yu the Great (大禹) was a legendary king in ancient China who was famed for his introduction of flood control, his establishment of the Xia dynasty which inaugurated dynastic rule in China, and his upright moral character. He figures promine ...

, founding emperor of the Xia dynasty, bestowed upon his minister Xi Zhong the title Marquis of Xue in gratitude for his invention of the Chinese chariot; Xi Zhong's descendants subsequently bore Xue as their clan name. Sinicized descendants of various non-Han Chinese peoples also adopted Xue as their surname, including the Turkic Tiele

Xueyantuo The Xueyantuo were an ancient Tiele people, Tiele tribe and khaganate in Northeast Asia who were at one point vassals of the Göktürks, later aligning with the Tang dynasty against the Eastern Turkic Khaganate, Eastern Göktürks. Names Xue ...

tribe, the Xianbei Chigan clan and several

Manchu The Manchus (; ) are a Tungusic East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia. They are an officially recognized ethnic minority in China and the people from whom Manchuria derives its name. The Later Jin (1616–1636) and ...

clans such as Sakda Hala, Sue Hala, Sunit Hala etc.

In literature

In the classical novel Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, the Xue family is one of the four noble families of Jinling. The socially graceful debutante Xue Baochai, a literary embodiment of ideal traditional Chinese femininity, is one of the principal characters in the novel.

Notable people with this surname (薛)

Academics and science

* Xue Juzheng, Song Dynasty

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

and scholar * Xue Muqiao, Chinese economist

Arts, media and entertainment

* Xue Fei, former China Central Television news anchor * Xue Ji, Tang dynasty calligrapher * Nancy Sit Ka Yin, Hong Kong actress *

Xue Jiye Xue Jiye (; born in 1965 in Dalian, Liaoning) is a Chinese painter and sculptor. He graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1988 and currently lives and works in Beijing. Xue Jiye and his work have been featured in various art exhibiti ...

, Chinese painter and sculptor *

Xue Jinghua Xue Jinghua (; born October 7, 1946) is a Chinese ballerina who was cast in the now internationally well-known Red Detachment of Women of the National Ballet of China as Wu Qinghua, the heroine of the ballet for which she became a ''prima balle ...

, the ''prima ballerina'' of the ballet Red Detachment of Women * Fiona Sit Hoi Kei, Hong Kong actress/singer * Xue Tao,

Tang dynasty The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, t= ), or Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907 AD, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdo ...

poet * Xue Xiaolu, Chinese director and screenwriter * Xue Xinran, British-Chinese broadcaster, journalist and author *

Xue Yongjun Xue () is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 薛 (Xuē). It is romanized as Hsüeh in Wade-Giles. In Hong Kong and Macau it is usually romanized through its Cantonese pronunciation Sit. In Korean, it corresponds to Seol (설), in Jap ...

, Chinese artist * Xue Zhi Qian ( Joker Xue), Chinese Singer and actor *

Francis Hsueh and Steven Hahn Francis Hsueh and Steven Hahn (both born in October 1973) are a film-making duo based in New York City. Hsueh and Hahn were former corporate lawyers from large New York firms who met in 2004 after becoming solo practitioners. While working on the ...

, film-making duo * Amy Sit Ying Yi, Hong Kong actress

Athletics

Xue Bing Xue Bing (薛冰, born 5 January 1966) is a Chinese sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of S ...

, Chinese canoe sprinter *

Xue Changrui Xue Changrui (; born 31 May 1991) is a Chinese track and field athlete who competes in the pole vault. His personal best is 5.82 m. He was the champion at the Asian Athletics Championships in 2013 and at the Asian Games in 2014. Career ...

, Chinese pole vaulter, Asian Champion 2013 *

Xue Chen Xue Chen (; born 18 February 1989 in Fuzhou, Fujian) is a Chinese beach volleyball player, measuring in height. Her hometown is Fuzhou, but she trains in Sanya, Hainan. She has also trained in California under coach Dane Selznick. She comp ...

, Chinese professional beach volleyball player *

Xue Haifeng Xue Haifeng (, born January 13, 1980, in Ili, Xinjiang, People's Republic of China) is an archer from the People's Republic of China. 2004 Summer Olympics Xue competed for China at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He w ...

, archer who competed in the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics * Xue Juan, Chinese javelin thrower *

Xue Ming Xue Ming (; born 23 February 1987 in Beijing) is a female Chinese people, Chinese volleyball player. She was part of the gold medal winning team at the 2005 Asian Championship. Awards Individuals * ''2009 Montreux Volley Masters#Awards, 2009 M ...

, Chinese volleyball player *

Xue Ya'nan Xue Ya'nan () is a professional Chinese footballer who currently plays as a defensive midfielder or full-back for Dalian LFTZ Huayi. Club career Xue Ya'nan started his career with Dalian Shide and was loaned out to their youth team called Dal ...

, Chinese footballer * Xue Yuyang, Chinese basketball player

Business

* Xue Manzi (Charles Xue), Chinese American entrepreneur, son of

Xue Zizheng Xue Zizheng (; 1905 - 1980) was a Chinese politician who served as deputy head of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) between 1958 and 1966. Biography Xue was born in Lirang Town of L ...

ShaoLan Hsueh ShaoLan Hsueh (also known as Heidi Hsueh; ) is a London-based Taiwanese author, designer, venture capitalist, tech entrepreneur, podcast host, speaker, and the creator of Chinese language learning system '' Chineasy''. As a college undergraduat ...

, entrepreneur born in

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northe ...

who developed a new method to teach

Chinese characters Chinese characters () are logograms developed for the writing of Chinese. In addition, they have been adapted to write other East Asian languages, and remain a key component of the Japanese writing system where they are known as '' kan ...

. * Albino SyCip (Xue Minlao), co-founder of Filipino bank, Chinabank *

Alfonso SyCip Alphons (Latinized ''Alphonsus'', ''Adelphonsus'', or ''Adefonsus'') is a male given name recorded from the 8th century (Alfonso I of Asturias, r. 739–757) in the Christian successor states of the Visigothic kingdom in the Iberian peninsula. ...

(Xue Fenshi) Chairman, Philippine Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, 1934–41.

Criminals

Sek Kim Wah The Andrew Road triple murders was a case of robbery turned triple murder in a bungalow at Andrew Road, Singapore, in 1983. The robbery was committed by two young men armed with a rifle and knife. During the robbery, one of the robbers murdered ...

(1964–1988), Singaporean convicted serial killer who was sentenced to death for five murders in

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

* Seet Cher Hng, Singaporean convicted murderer who killed his wife in 2018

Government, politics, law and military

Hsueh Hsiang-chuan Hsueh Hsiang-chuan (; born 12 December 1944) is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Secretary-General of the Executive Yuan in 2008-2009. Early life Hsueh obtained his doctoral degree in nutritional biochemistry from University of Wisconsin&nda ...

(1944-), politician in

* Hsueh Jui-yuan, Vice Minister of Health and Welfare *

Hsueh Ling Hsueh Ling (; born in 1954) is a member of the Democratic Progressive Party who is in the Legislative Yuan in Taiwan.Shih, Hsiu-chuan.Free-for-all breaks out in legislature" ''Taipei Times The ''Taipei Times'' is the only printed daily ...

(1954-), member of the Democratic Progressive Party, in

Xue Daoheng Xue () is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 薛 (Xuē). It is romanized as Hsüeh in Wade-Giles. In Hong Kong and Macau it is usually romanized through its Cantonese pronunciation Sit. In Korean, it corresponds to Seol (설), in Jap ...

, official in Northern Qi, Northern Zhou and

Sui dynasty The Sui dynasty (, ) was a short-lived imperial dynasty of China that lasted from 581 to 618. The Sui unified the Northern and Southern dynasties, thus ending the long period of division following the fall of the Western Jin dynasty, and la ...

* Xue E,

general, grandson of Xue Rengui * Xue Feng, American geologist held in China on espionage charges *

Xue Fucheng Xue Fucheng or Hsieh Fucheng (12 April 1838 – 21 July 1894) was a Chinese diplomat of the Qing dynasty in the late 19th century. Born in Wuxi, Jiangsu to a literati family. Late Qing dynasty writer/essayist, diplomat to England, France, Be ...

Qing dynasty The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...

diplomat * Xue Hanqin, judge at International Court of Justice * Xue Ji,

Tang dynasty chancellor The chancellor () was a semi-formally designated office position for a number of high-level officials at one time during the Tang dynasty of China. This list also includes chancellors of the short-lived Wu Zhou dynasty, which is typically treat ...

, great-grandson of

* Xue Ju, founding emperor of a short-lived state of Qin at the end of the

* Xue Ping,

general, son of Xue Song * Hsueh Chi, Taiwanese economist and politician * Xue Ne, early

general, son of Xue Rengui, * Xue Rengao, emperor of the short-lived state of Qin before surrendering to the founder of the

, Emperor Taizong of Tang * Xue Rengui, early

general, most known for his campaigns against

Goguryeo Goguryeo (37 BC–668 AD) ( ) also called Goryeo (), was a Korean kingdom located in the northern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula and the southern and central parts of Northeast China. At its peak of power, Goguryeo controlled mos ...

, the Western Turkic Khaganate, and the Tibetan Empire * Xue Song,

general, grandson of Xue Rengui *

Xue Wanche Xue () is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 薛 (Xuē). It is romanized as Hsüeh in Wade-Giles. In Hong Kong and Macau it is usually romanized through its Cantonese pronunciation Sit. In Korean, it corresponds to Seol (설), in Jap ...

, early

general * Xue Wenjie, Min official * Xue Xu,

Eastern Wu Wu ( Chinese: 吳; pinyin: ''Wú''; Middle Chinese *''ŋuo'' < Eastern Han Chinese: ''*ŋuɑ''), known in historiography as Eastern Wu o ...

official, son of Xue Zong *

Xue Yiju Xue Yiju (; died May 25, 912''Zizhi Tongjian'', vol. 268.Academia Sinica Chinese-Western Calendar ...

, Tang dynasty and Later Liang dynasty chancellor * Xue Ying,

Eastern Wu Wu ( Chinese: 吳; pinyin: ''Wú''; Middle Chinese *''ŋuo'' < Eastern Han Chinese: ''*ŋuɑ''), known in historiography as Eastern Wu o ...

official, son of Xue Zong * Xue Yuanchao,

* Xue Yue,

Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Tai ...

army general during the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Thea ...

and the Chinese Civil War *

, former Deputy Head of the United Front Work Department * Xue Zong, Minister of State of

Eastern Wu Wu ( Chinese: 吳; pinyin: ''Wú''; Middle Chinese *''ŋuo'' < Eastern Han Chinese: ''*ŋuɑ''), known in historiography as Eastern Wu o ...

during the

Three Kingdoms The Three Kingdoms () from 220 to 280 AD was the tripartite division of China among the dynastic states of Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu. The Three Kingdoms period was preceded by the Han dynasty#Eastern Han, Eastern Han dynasty and wa ...

* Alfred Sit Wing Hang, former Secretary for Innovation and Technology in

* Kingsley Sit Ho Yin, Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.

Fiction

* Xue Baochai, one of the protagonists of the classic Chinese novel '' Dream of the Red Chamber''

Notes

References

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