Yíng

Ying
Language(s)	Chinese
Origin
Language(s)	Old Chinese
Derivation	Shaohao (少昊) Gaoyao (皋陶) Boyi (伯益) Gaoyang (高揚) Feizi (非子) Ying Zheng (嬴政)
Meaning	Be Full (嬴)
Other names
Variant(s)	Young/Yong/Yang/Wang
Cognate(s)	Jin (Chinese surname) Jin (Korean surname) Li (surname) Xu (surname) Zhao (surname)
Derivative(s)	Ing/In/
See also	Qin (state) Southern Qi Northern Qi Former Qin
Families
Chinese

Ying (Chinese: 嬴) is a Chinese surname. It is the royal house name of the early Qin, and Qin Dynasty. Ying Zheng is the first emperor of the unified Chinese empire.

The Zhao family is one such kind of clan belonging to the Ying tribe. There are 14 clan names in China derived from the same ancestral name Ying, they are the famous members of the Ying group which are from the Zhao family.

Shaohao had a Child the Gaoyao, or Gaoyao (皋陶). Gaoyao had a child, Boyi (伯益). Boyi (伯益) was in charge of flood control and got the surname Ying (嬴), in an early Xia Dynasty time. Yu the Great gave a state of Dengfeng to the son of Boyi (伯益). This became the State of Ying (英). Other children of Boyi (伯益) became the feudal lord of Liu (state) (六), and Xu (Chinese state) (許), by order of Yu the Great. Later, the Ying (赢) tribe was founded in the state of Ying (英), and the Liu (六) in, Xu (許) in Henan. >

The Ying tribe were powerful feudal lords at the end of the Shang Dynasty period. Feilian (蜚廉) of the Ying (皋) family was the General and feudal lord under King Zhou of Shang. After the fall of the Shang Dynasty, the Ying tribe moved to Shanxi and Gansu.

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