Hsia (夏)
A Taiwanese surname.
夏 Hsia
- Zhuyin
- ㄒㄧㄚˋ
- Pinyin
- xià
- Wade-Giles
- Hsia
- Further spellings of 夏
- Shia, Sia, Xia
- Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô)
- Hē Hē is the colloquial (白讀) reading, while hā is the character's literary (文讀) reading.
- Hakka (Sixian)
- ha⁵⁵
- Rank in Taiwan
- 96th most common surname, roughly 0.07% of the population (2023 Ministry of the Interior figures)
What the character means
'Summer'; it is also the Xia dynasty and, in classical texts, a name for China.
Where the surname comes from
Tradition traces it to the Xia dynasty of Yu the Great: descendants of the Xia royal house, later rulers of the state of Qi (杞), took Xia as a surname. A further line descends from Prince Xia (公子夏) of the state of Chen. Hall name (堂號): 會稽堂.
Saying it 我姓夏 — wǒ xìng xià (ㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄒㄧㄚˋ), "my family name is 夏"
Sources: rank and share, 內政部 全國姓名統計分析 (Ministry of the Interior, National Name Statistics), data as of 2023-06-30. Taiwanese Hokkien readings, 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi), 百家姓 appendix. Hakka, 教育部臺灣客語辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka), 百家姓表, Sixian (四縣腔).