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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Korean (Pyŏn) : there are two Chinese characters for this surname, born by two different groups of families. The larger of the two groups is composed of two closely related clans. The other group is said by some sources to be composed of 67 clans, but only three of them can be documented with certainty, and 90% of this second group are members of just one of those three clans.

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