Hsieh (謝)
A Taiwanese surname.
謝 Hsieh
- Zhuyin
- ㄒㄧㄝˋ
- Pinyin
- xiè
- Wade-Giles
- Hsieh
- Further spellings of 謝
- Shie, Sie, Xie, Shieh
- Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô)
- Tsiā MOE's name-reading tool gives Siā as the more common reading. Tsiā is the colloquial (白讀) reading, while siā is the character's literary (文讀) reading.
- Hakka (Sixian)
- qia⁵⁵
- Rank in Taiwan
- 13th most common surname, roughly 1.77% of the population (2023 Ministry of the Interior figures)
What the character means
'To thank'; it also means 'to decline', 'to take leave' and 'to wither'.
Where the surname comes from
Tradition traces it to the state of Xie (謝) in present-day Henan, granted by King Xuan of Zhou to his maternal uncle Shen Bo (申伯) of the Jiang (姜) clan; descendants took Xie as their surname. The Xie of Chen commandery ranked among the leading families of the Eastern Jin. Hall name (堂號): 陳留堂.
Saying it 我姓謝 — wǒ xìng xiè (ㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄒㄧㄝˋ), "my family name is 謝"
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).