What is the pronunciation of car as a surname?

The pronunciation of car as a surname is chē.

Che (chē) is the197th surname in China (2020). At present, the total population of car dealers is about 520,000, accounting for 0.04% of the Han population in China.

With the arrival of the times when Shandong people went to the Guandong, Shanxi people went westward, Shaanxi people went to Gansu, Henan people moved to Shaanxi, and Huguang people filled Sichuan, Che's surname took root in the northwest, northeast and southwest, ranking 229th among the hundred surnames in the Song Dynasty.

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Che (Tian), Feng Yi, a native of Changling (now northeast of Xianyang, Shaanxi), was a minister of the Western Han Dynasty. Descendants of Tianqi in the Warring States Period. At first, he was tall. In the "witchcraft disaster", the criminal prince was trapped by Jiang Chong. He wrote a letter to avenge the death of the prince. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty didn't realize that he had been promoted to the position of a great hero until he was in the ninth grade, so the history goes back to ancient times.

Before long, he became prime minister, which made him rich. During the phase, he advised the emperor to give him a suspended sentence, and was assisted by the testamentary edict and Huo Guang (Zhao Di). For more than ten years, he has been upright, wise, cautious and self-controlled, and his reputation has surpassed that of his predecessors.

When he was old, the emperor chartered him to enter the palace by car and called him the prime minister. His descendants regarded the car as the ancestor of the Che family because they thought he was the Che family.

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