Girl name origins & meanings
- Chinese : Silver
Family name origins & meanings
- Chinese :
from the name of Yin City, in present-day
Shanxi province, or from a status name of a government official. A
grandson of the legendary emperor Huang Di (2697–2595 bc)
was granted Yin City and in due course his descendants adopted the
name of the city as their surname. Additionally, throughout the Shang
(1766–1122 bc) and Zhou (1122–221 bc) dynasties,
there existed a high government position called Yin. Many descendants
of Yin officials adopted the status name Yin as their surname. - Chinese :
from the name of the Yin dynasty and the city
from which it takes its name. Midway through the Shang dynasty
(1766–1122 bc), the Shang moved their capital to the city
of Yin, in present-day Henan province. Some scholars divide the Shang
dynasty into two parts, calling the first half the Shang dynasty, and
the second half the Yin dynasty. After the Zhou conquered the Shang,
many descendants of the vanquished Yin adopted the city name as their
surname. - Cambodian : unexplained.