My great-great-great-grandmother was Hakka. I don't know where she originally came from. I only know that she went to Guangdong and married my great-great-great-grandfather. Her family were merchants. Later, they moved to Vietnam in the late 19th, where she passed away. Her grave has the surname written in Vietnamese Quốc Ngữ (the current Latin-based Vietnamese script). Her surname is recorded as Gia. However, I don’t know how her name was written in Han characters. The image I attached contains all the Chinese characters that can be pronounced as Gia in Vietnamese. Please help me find the character. Thank you very much.
#Help me find my great-great-great-grandmother's surname
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贾 probably
贾 is pronounced as Giả in Vietnamese. But I think this can be a good theory because maybe it was written in the wrong tone, or the grave is too old that the tone mark fell off
Is it common in Hakka people?
no It is not one of the surnames with the highest number'
but in the given pic there is few surname
After my family carefully examined the gravestone, I used the method of shining parallel light at night onto the surface of the tombstone and discovered that there was indeed a worn tone mark on my grandmother’s name. Her surname is indeed Giả (賈). This makes a lot of sense because the Hakka people originate from northern regions such as Hebei, Shanxi, Henan,... where the surname 賈 is quite common. Thank you so much for helping me
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