The Chinese expression "Three Zhang Four Li" ( simplified Chinese: 张三李四 traditional Chinese: 張三李四 pinyin: Zhāng Sān Lǐ Sì) is used to mean "anyone" or "everyone", but the most common surnames are currently Wang in mainland China and Chen in Taiwan. Even today, the number of surnames in China is a little over 4,000, while the year 2000 US census found there are more than 6.2 million surnames altogether and that there were 150,000 American surnames held by at least 100 people. 'Old Hundred Surnames') is an ancient and traditional one, the most notable tally being the Song-era Hundred Family Surnames ( Chinese: 百家姓 pinyin: Bǎi Jiā Xìng). The conception of China as consisting of the " old 100 families" ( Chinese: 老百姓 pinyin: Lǎo Bǎi Xìng lit. Chinese names also form the basis for many common Cambodian, Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese surnames and to an extent, Filipino surnames in both translation and transliteration into those languages. These are lists of the most common Chinese surnames in mainland China (People's Republic of China), Taiwan (Republic of China), and the Chinese diaspora overseas as provided by authoritative government or academic sources.
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