Not to be confused with Hee (Korean name), an element of Korean given names (but not a surname), which is spelled Hui in the Revised Romanization of Korean.
The Chinese character used to write this surname means "return". It does not appear in Hundred Family Surnames. Sources published during the Song dynasty, including the Guangyun dictionary, Xingjie,[6] the section "Given Names Used as Surnames" (以名為氏) in the Tongzhi encyclopedia, and Gujin Xingshi Shu Bianzheng [zh], state three origins for this surname:[7][8]
It was originally the personal name of Fang Hui (方回), an official who served under Emperor Yao
It was originally the personal name of Wu Hui (吳回), a son of the legendary Zhurong. Wu Hui's son Sun later took Hui as his surname.
It is found as a surname among the Hui people (whose ethnonym is written with the same character). However, the sources do not explain its origin.
In Sino-Korean pronunciation, this character is read Hoe. It is not used as a surname in modern Korea, and only rarely as an element of given names.[3][4] In Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation, it is read Hồi.[9]
Xǔ (traditional Chinese: 許; simplified Chinese: 许), spelled Hui based on its Cantonese pronunciation (Jyutping: Hoei2; Cantonese Yale: Héui)
Fèi (traditional Chinese: 費; simplified Chinese: 费), spelled Hui based on its pronunciation in various Southern Min dialects, e.g. Teochew (Peng'im: hui⁵; IPA: /hui²¹³/)[10]
Statistics
According to reports in 2014, the surname Huì (惠) meaning "favour" was the 262nd-most-common surname in mainland China. It had roughly 298,000 bearers, primarily in Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong, and Jiangsu.[11]
According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks, there were 581 people on the island of Great Britain and 34 on the island of Ireland with the surname Hui as of 2011. There were no people with the surname on the island of Great Britain in 1881.[8]
The 2010 United States Census found 5,768 people with the surname Hui, making it the 5,966th-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 5,282 (6,003rd-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, more than nine-tenths of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian.[12] It was the 228th-most-common surname among respondents to the 2000 Census who identified as Asian.[13]
^ ab"행정구역(구시군)/성씨·본관별 가구 및 인구" [Family names by administrative region (district, city, county): separated by bon-gwan, households and individuals]. Korean Statistical Information Service. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
^ ab"인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF) (in Korean). Seoul: Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea. August 2007. Archived from the original(PDF) on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
^Fielde, Adele M. (1883). "費". A pronouncing and defining dictionary of the Swatow dialect, arranged according to syllables and tones. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press. p. 171.
^"惠Huì". Shanwei Daily. 16 April 2014. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
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