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鄭 (Zheng, Ty) in PH

First published in Tulay Fortnightly, Chinese-Filipino Digest 24, no. 5 (August 9-22, 2011): 5. The surname 鄭 (Zheng in Mandarin, Ty in Hokkien) ranks 21st among common surnames in China, and 19th among Chinese in the Philippines. The origin of surname Ty is quite simple. It originated in 806 BC when Emperor Zhou Xuan Wang […]