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Around the globe, Zhōng (忠 , 钟 , 终 , along with others...) is a widespread primarily masculine, but scarcely girly forename. The first name Zhōng is habitual in Eastern Asia, particularly China, where it is quite a common principally masculine, but very infrequently female name. More prevalently, Zhōng is the last name as well as the forename.
Zhōng is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Li Zhong , the Water Margin character; Jiang Zhong , the Water Margin character; Bao Zhong , the fictional human in "The Romance of Three Kingdoms", Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Jing Zhong , the Jin Ping Mei character.