The term Wei may refer to:
Dynasties
* Northern Wei Dynasty, archaeologically the most famous of the Wei dynasties.
* Wei , state during the Spring and Autumn Period
* State of Wei during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period
* Kingdom of Wei during the Three Kingdoms Period
People
* Wei Zhongxian, considered by many to be the most infamous eunuch in Chinese history. Orginal name was Li Jinzhong.
* Wei Jingsheng, a Chinese dissident
* Wei Qing, a general of the Western Han Dynasty
* Lady Wei Shuo, calligrapher
* Wei Yan, a military officer of Shu during the Three Kingdoms Period
* Shang Yang, Qin minister, originally known as Wei Yang
* Wei Zheng, a statesman of the Tang Dynasty
* , a Chinese volleyball player
* Wei Chen, a Canadian television and radio journalist
* Zhao Wei, a Chinese film actress and pop singer, sometimes referred to by her English name, Vicki Zhao
* a common misspelling of Michelle Wie, golfer
Other
*Wei Hai, an ancient wargame
*Wei , a company-grade officer in Chinese armed forces.
* Wei River, a main tributary to the Yellow River]
* Wei, a star otherwise known as Epsilon Scorpii
The acronym WEI may also refer to:
* Wau Ecology Institute
* The Windows Experience Index reported by the Windows System Assessment Tool, a measure of the user-perceived performance of a computer running Microsoft Windows.
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Wang (surname)
Wang is one of the most common and ancient Chinese family names. It is ranked 8th in the Hundred Family Surnames, and 1st in "National Citizen ID Information System" . As of 2007, Wang is ranked as the most common surname in Mainland China, with 92.88 million people bearing this surname. Translated into English, Wang literally means "” , although bearing the name has no royal implications in most cases. Outside of China, there are also many people who bear Wang as their surname, such as in Korea.
Wang is also romanized as "Wong", especially for people from Hong Kong or from Guangdong. Note that "Wong" is actually the Cantonese romanization of three different surnames; Wang , Huang and Wang . In addition, "Wang" is the Cantonese romanization of the following uncommon family names: , , , and . In Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, it was romanized as Ong and Heng.
In western countries, the surname Wang is very commonly mispronounced. In most forms of English including American English, "Wang" is often anglicized into /w??/ with a long "a" and has entered common usage, and even adopted by some Chinese immigrants to the area who grow weary of correcting the mispronunciation. The actual pronunciation of the surname is with a short "a"; /wɑ?/ in a rising tone.
There were many origins in the development of Wang as a surname, but the main origins that structure the modern surname of Wang were four: , , and change of surnames from other ethnic groups outside of Han Chinese.
The most ancient family name of Wang was originated from the surname . The Chinese legend mentions that near the end of Shang Dynasty, King Zhou of Shang's uncle Bi Gan, Qi Zi and Wei Zi were called "The Three Kindhearted of Shang". King Zhou was violent in his rule, and Bi Gan repeatedly remonstrated to the king regarding his behavior. The king refused his comments, and killed Bi Gan instead. Bi's descendants used "Wang" as their surname as they are descendants of a prince, and was known as the "The Bi clan of Wang family". The Zi clan existed around 3100 years through Qin Dynasty to Tang Dynasty, and until today. The Zi clan of Wang lived predominantly in Henan during these times, and developed into the famous Wang Family of Ji prefecture.
More families of Wang were originated from the royal family of Zhou Dynasty. The original surname of the royal family of Zhou Dynasty was . However, many of them have separated out of the family due to the loss of power amd land. Because of they once belonged to the royal family, they used "Wang" as their surname. This family of Wang traced its ancestry to Wang Ziqiao
According to the classical records, after King Wu of Zhou defeated the Shang Dynasty, he chose the capital at the city of Gao. This was known in history as the Western Zhou Dynasty. During the reign of the 21th king, King Ling of Zhou , the capital was in Chen Zhou, which is the present day Luoyang, Henan. The son of King Ling, , was reduced to civilian status due to his remonstration to the king. His son Zong Jin remains to be a Situ in the palace, and because of the people at the time recognized him as the descendant of the royal family, they called his family the "Wang family". From this moment on, this clan used "Wang" as their surname. When the 8th generation of the Ji clan of Wang Wang Cuo became a general in the State of Wei, the clan finally regained its status. In the early period of Qin Dynasty, this clan was active in areas of Luoyang, Henan. Between the end of Qin Dynasty and the beginning of Han Dynasty, Wang Yuan and Wang Wei, sons of the Marquis of Wuchen Wang Li, moved to Langye, Shandong and Taiyuan, Shanxi. Since then, they have developed into the most famous Wang family of Langye and Taiyuan, the biggest group in the surname of Wang. The Ji clan of Wang existed around 2600 years. In China, 90% of the Wang family that have their family tree originated from the Ji clan of Wang.
The Hmong version of Wang is Vang, or in RPA Vaj or Vaaj. It has the same etymology as the Chinese surname, and is fairly common among the Hmong. The Vang constitute one of the largest of the eighteen clans of the Hmong.
Wang is a ? but fairly rare in Korea. According to the South Korean census of 2000, in that year 23,447 people bearing the Wang surname were living in the country.
Wang was one of the most powerful clans in the Chinese on the Korean Peninsula. According to the ''Houhanshu'', its ancestor Wang Zhong originally lived in Qi in the 2nd century B.C.E., but fled to when the Prince of Qibei revolted against the Han Dynasty. The Wang clan flourished in the Lelang commandery, and seems to have contributed to the cultural development of subsequent kingdoms.
Although it was the Goryeo royal family name, Wang is very rare today. It is said that when Goryeo fell, people called Wang changed their surname to avoid severe persecution from the succeeding Joseon Dynasty. The Kaesong Wang traces its ancestry to the Goryeo rulers.
is a rare which is the equivalent of Wang. ? is the way Japanese pronounce the character 王. Most Japanese with this family name are of Chinese descent. Sadaharu Oh is a famous baseball player and manager in Japan.
The surname Wang in Indonesia is often pronounced as Heng or Bong for people of Hokkien descent, and more commonly as Ong by Chinese Peranakan.
The name Wang in the Vietnamese language is V??ng.
:''Note: people with the family name “?” are listed in the “” article.''
* Wang Chien-Ming, a Taiwanese baseball pitcher of the New York Yankees
* Wang Banyang , US-born volunteer fighter pilot, pre-Flying Tigers, made one of the earliest monoplane-fighter versus monoplane fighter kills in air-combat history
* Wang Guowei, scholar of late Qing Dynasty, early era
* Wang Jin-pyng, Taiwanese politician
* Winston Wong, Taiwanese businessman
* An Wang, computer scientist who founded Wang Laboratories
* Wang Anshi, politician during the .
* Wang Can, scholar of late Eastern Han Dynasty
* Charles Wang, co-founder of Computer Associates International Inc.
* Wang Chien-shien, politician of the Republic of China
* Wang Chong , Chinese philosopher
* , general during the Three Kingdoms period
* Wang Chongyang, Taoist
* Wang David, former Chinese ambassador to Australia.
* Wang David, professional American track athlete
* Wang Dan, Student Leader - Tiananmen Square Dissident
* Wang Dao, statesman and chief advisor of Emperor Yuan of Jin
* Wang Dun, ambitious militant of the Eastern
* Wang Fanxi, Trotskyist
* Faye Wong, Chinese singer
* Wang Fuzhi Chinese philosopher and historian
* Garrett Wang, Chinese American actor
* Wang Guangmei, wife of Liu Shaoqi
* Wang Guangya, UN ambassador
* , Chinese-American logician, philosopher and mathematician
* Wong Kar-wai, movie director
* Wang Liqin, table tennis player
* Wang Mang, founder of Xin Dynasty
* Wang Meng, Chief Advisor of Fu Jian
* Wang Nan, table tennis player
* Paul Wang, American film producer
* Wang Pi, Taoist philosopher during the Three Kingdoms
* Wang Shiyan, Chinese Painter
* Wang Shizhen, Yuan Shikai's Beiyang subordinate
* Wang Tao, Reformer, political essayist, newspaper publisher, fiction writer
* Vera Wang, designer
* Wang David, Abercrombie/Hollister model
* Wayne Wang, movie director
* , Famous poet of Tang Dynasty
* Wang Xizhi, calligrapher during the Eastern
* Wang Xianzhi, calligrapher, son of Wang Xizhi
* Wang Xiaobo, modern writer
* Wang Yan, statesman and Taoist philosopher during the Western
* Wang Yangming, prominent Neo-Confucian of Ming Dynasty
* Wang Yung-ching, influential businessman
* Wang Zhaojun, one of the Four Beauties of ancient China
* Empress Wang Zhengjun, mother of Emperor Cheng of Han and aunt of Wang Mang
* Wang Zhizhi, former NBA player
* Yuja Wang, Classical pianist
* Wong Jing, movie director
* Wang Jingwei , politician of early Republic of China
* Wang Daohan , politician of the People's Republic of China and president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits
* Lee-Hom Wang, Taiwanese American singer-songwriter, actor, and commercial model
* Wáng Dǐngchāng, , The first directly elected President of Republic of Singapore
*The royal family of the Goryeo Dynasty, founded by Wang Geon
**Wang Go
**Wang Toghtua Bukha
* Wang Ki-Chun, judo world champion
* Wang Ji-hyun, popularly known as Jun Ji-hyun
* Wang Shizhen, a character in ''Hikaru no Go''
* Amy Wong, a character from ''''
* Wang Lung from the book ''The Good Earth''
* Nina Wáng a character in ''My-Otome''
* Lo Wang, the protagonist of the video game ''Shadow Warrior''
* Chon Wang, a protagonist in ''Shanghai Noon'' and ''Shanghai Knights''
* Wang Jinrei, a playable character in the popular video game franchise
Wang is also romanized as "Wong", especially for people from Hong Kong or from Guangdong. Note that "Wong" is actually the Cantonese romanization of three different surnames; Wang , Huang and Wang . In addition, "Wang" is the Cantonese romanization of the following uncommon family names: , , , and . In Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, it was romanized as Ong and Heng.
Pronunciation
In western countries, the surname Wang is very commonly mispronounced. In most forms of English including American English, "Wang" is often anglicized into /w??/ with a long "a" and has entered common usage, and even adopted by some Chinese immigrants to the area who grow weary of correcting the mispronunciation. The actual pronunciation of the surname is with a short "a"; /wɑ?/ in a rising tone.
Origins and development
There were many origins in the development of Wang as a surname, but the main origins that structure the modern surname of Wang were four: , , and change of surnames from other ethnic groups outside of Han Chinese.
Zi house
The most ancient family name of Wang was originated from the surname . The Chinese legend mentions that near the end of Shang Dynasty, King Zhou of Shang's uncle Bi Gan, Qi Zi and Wei Zi were called "The Three Kindhearted of Shang". King Zhou was violent in his rule, and Bi Gan repeatedly remonstrated to the king regarding his behavior. The king refused his comments, and killed Bi Gan instead. Bi's descendants used "Wang" as their surname as they are descendants of a prince, and was known as the "The Bi clan of Wang family". The Zi clan existed around 3100 years through Qin Dynasty to Tang Dynasty, and until today. The Zi clan of Wang lived predominantly in Henan during these times, and developed into the famous Wang Family of Ji prefecture.
Ji house
More families of Wang were originated from the royal family of Zhou Dynasty. The original surname of the royal family of Zhou Dynasty was . However, many of them have separated out of the family due to the loss of power amd land. Because of they once belonged to the royal family, they used "Wang" as their surname. This family of Wang traced its ancestry to Wang Ziqiao
According to the classical records, after King Wu of Zhou defeated the Shang Dynasty, he chose the capital at the city of Gao. This was known in history as the Western Zhou Dynasty. During the reign of the 21th king, King Ling of Zhou , the capital was in Chen Zhou, which is the present day Luoyang, Henan. The son of King Ling, , was reduced to civilian status due to his remonstration to the king. His son Zong Jin remains to be a Situ in the palace, and because of the people at the time recognized him as the descendant of the royal family, they called his family the "Wang family". From this moment on, this clan used "Wang" as their surname. When the 8th generation of the Ji clan of Wang Wang Cuo became a general in the State of Wei, the clan finally regained its status. In the early period of Qin Dynasty, this clan was active in areas of Luoyang, Henan. Between the end of Qin Dynasty and the beginning of Han Dynasty, Wang Yuan and Wang Wei, sons of the Marquis of Wuchen Wang Li, moved to Langye, Shandong and Taiyuan, Shanxi. Since then, they have developed into the most famous Wang family of Langye and Taiyuan, the biggest group in the surname of Wang. The Ji clan of Wang existed around 2600 years. In China, 90% of the Wang family that have their family tree originated from the Ji clan of Wang.
Wang in other countries and ethnic groups
Hmong
The Hmong version of Wang is Vang, or in RPA Vaj or Vaaj. It has the same etymology as the Chinese surname, and is fairly common among the Hmong. The Vang constitute one of the largest of the eighteen clans of the Hmong.
Korean
Wang is a ? but fairly rare in Korea. According to the South Korean census of 2000, in that year 23,447 people bearing the Wang surname were living in the country.
Wang was one of the most powerful clans in the Chinese on the Korean Peninsula. According to the ''Houhanshu'', its ancestor Wang Zhong originally lived in Qi in the 2nd century B.C.E., but fled to when the Prince of Qibei revolted against the Han Dynasty. The Wang clan flourished in the Lelang commandery, and seems to have contributed to the cultural development of subsequent kingdoms.
Although it was the Goryeo royal family name, Wang is very rare today. It is said that when Goryeo fell, people called Wang changed their surname to avoid severe persecution from the succeeding Joseon Dynasty. The Kaesong Wang traces its ancestry to the Goryeo rulers.
Japanese
is a rare which is the equivalent of Wang. ? is the way Japanese pronounce the character 王. Most Japanese with this family name are of Chinese descent. Sadaharu Oh is a famous baseball player and manager in Japan.
Indonesian
The surname Wang in Indonesia is often pronounced as Heng or Bong for people of Hokkien descent, and more commonly as Ong by Chinese Peranakan.
Vietnamese
The name Wang in the Vietnamese language is V??ng.
Prominent personages
:''Note: people with the family name “?” are listed in the “” article.''
Taiwanese
* Wang Chien-Ming, a Taiwanese baseball pitcher of the New York Yankees
* Wang Banyang , US-born volunteer fighter pilot, pre-Flying Tigers, made one of the earliest monoplane-fighter versus monoplane fighter kills in air-combat history
* Wang Guowei, scholar of late Qing Dynasty, early era
* Wang Jin-pyng, Taiwanese politician
* Winston Wong, Taiwanese businessman
Chinese
* An Wang, computer scientist who founded Wang Laboratories
* Wang Anshi, politician during the .
* Wang Can, scholar of late Eastern Han Dynasty
* Charles Wang, co-founder of Computer Associates International Inc.
* Wang Chien-shien, politician of the Republic of China
* Wang Chong , Chinese philosopher
* , general during the Three Kingdoms period
* Wang Chongyang, Taoist
* Wang David, former Chinese ambassador to Australia.
* Wang David, professional American track athlete
* Wang Dan, Student Leader - Tiananmen Square Dissident
* Wang Dao, statesman and chief advisor of Emperor Yuan of Jin
* Wang Dun, ambitious militant of the Eastern
* Wang Fanxi, Trotskyist
* Faye Wong, Chinese singer
* Wang Fuzhi Chinese philosopher and historian
* Garrett Wang, Chinese American actor
* Wang Guangmei, wife of Liu Shaoqi
* Wang Guangya, UN ambassador
* , Chinese-American logician, philosopher and mathematician
* Wong Kar-wai, movie director
* Wang Liqin, table tennis player
* Wang Mang, founder of Xin Dynasty
* Wang Meng, Chief Advisor of Fu Jian
* Wang Nan, table tennis player
* Paul Wang, American film producer
* Wang Pi, Taoist philosopher during the Three Kingdoms
* Wang Shiyan, Chinese Painter
* Wang Shizhen, Yuan Shikai's Beiyang subordinate
* Wang Tao, Reformer, political essayist, newspaper publisher, fiction writer
* Vera Wang, designer
* Wang David, Abercrombie/Hollister model
* Wayne Wang, movie director
* , Famous poet of Tang Dynasty
* Wang Xizhi, calligrapher during the Eastern
* Wang Xianzhi, calligrapher, son of Wang Xizhi
* Wang Xiaobo, modern writer
* Wang Yan, statesman and Taoist philosopher during the Western
* Wang Yangming, prominent Neo-Confucian of Ming Dynasty
* Wang Yung-ching, influential businessman
* Wang Zhaojun, one of the Four Beauties of ancient China
* Empress Wang Zhengjun, mother of Emperor Cheng of Han and aunt of Wang Mang
* Wang Zhizhi, former NBA player
* Yuja Wang, Classical pianist
* Wong Jing, movie director
* Wang Jingwei , politician of early Republic of China
* Wang Daohan , politician of the People's Republic of China and president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits
* Lee-Hom Wang, Taiwanese American singer-songwriter, actor, and commercial model
* Wáng Dǐngchāng, , The first directly elected President of Republic of Singapore
Korean
*The royal family of the Goryeo Dynasty, founded by Wang Geon
**Wang Go
**Wang Toghtua Bukha
* Wang Ki-Chun, judo world champion
* Wang Ji-hyun, popularly known as Jun Ji-hyun
Fiction
* Wang Shizhen, a character in ''Hikaru no Go''
* Amy Wong, a character from ''''
* Wang Lung from the book ''The Good Earth''
* Nina Wáng a character in ''My-Otome''
* Lo Wang, the protagonist of the video game ''Shadow Warrior''
* Chon Wang, a protagonist in ''Shanghai Noon'' and ''Shanghai Knights''
* Wang Jinrei, a playable character in the popular video game franchise
Notes and citations
Táng (surname)
Tang , is a surname. Japanese, Korean and also have the surname with the same character but different pronunciation/romanization .
People with this surname mainly have two originations :
* From the clan name Tao-Tang
** ''Tao-Tang'' was the clan name for Emperor 's tribe, so Yao is also known as Tang Yao or Tang Fangxun . ''Tao'' means ''pottery'', which was a very important invention and tool in acient China; ''Tang'' was the ancient name for the place currently is part of central China and the central plain of Shanxi Province. Yao's tribe combined the names of pottery and their resident place as their clan name . The of Yao continued using the surname Tang instead of ''Tao-Tang'', probably for simplification purpose.
* From the King Tang Shuyu
** In the early Zhou Dynasty , when the King Wu of Zhou was still a child, one day he played a game with his young brother Tang Shuyu. The King Wu of Zhou cut a leaf to a Jade Gui shape, sent to Tang Shuyu, and said: you're rised to the Marquis of Tang . The chancellor aside immediately advised the King Wu of Zhou to choose an auspicious day and make a royal ceremony for establishing Tang Shuyu. The King Wu of Zhou felt suprising and said: we are just playing a game and I just made a joke. The chancellor replied: the King cannot make a joke, once the King speaks out, historians record his words, the loyal ceremony will be held, and the loyal music will be played. Thus Tang Shuyu was rised to the Marquis of Tang, and later became the first king of . It's a famous historic event and the origin for the Chinese phrase ''Tongye Fenghou'' . His offspring continued using ''Tang'' as their surname.
* Tang of Shang : King of Shang Dynasty
* Tang Shuyu: King of
* Tang Yin : Ming Dynasty official, painter, calligraphist, poet, literator
* Tang Ching-sung : the first President of the Republic of Formosa
* Tang Shaoyi : Prime Minister of the Republic of China
* Tang Jiyao : general, warlord
* Tang Shengzhi : general, warlord
* Tang Junyi : philosopher
* Tang Ti-sheng : opera playwright, scriptwriter, film director
* Tang Fei : the Premier of the Republic of China
* Tang Jiaxuan : the Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China
* Henry Tang : Hong Kong politician and official
* Tang Dynasty
History
People with this surname mainly have two originations :
* From the clan name Tao-Tang
** ''Tao-Tang'' was the clan name for Emperor 's tribe, so Yao is also known as Tang Yao or Tang Fangxun . ''Tao'' means ''pottery'', which was a very important invention and tool in acient China; ''Tang'' was the ancient name for the place currently is part of central China and the central plain of Shanxi Province. Yao's tribe combined the names of pottery and their resident place as their clan name . The of Yao continued using the surname Tang instead of ''Tao-Tang'', probably for simplification purpose.
* From the King Tang Shuyu
** In the early Zhou Dynasty , when the King Wu of Zhou was still a child, one day he played a game with his young brother Tang Shuyu. The King Wu of Zhou cut a leaf to a Jade Gui shape, sent to Tang Shuyu, and said: you're rised to the Marquis of Tang . The chancellor aside immediately advised the King Wu of Zhou to choose an auspicious day and make a royal ceremony for establishing Tang Shuyu. The King Wu of Zhou felt suprising and said: we are just playing a game and I just made a joke. The chancellor replied: the King cannot make a joke, once the King speaks out, historians record his words, the loyal ceremony will be held, and the loyal music will be played. Thus Tang Shuyu was rised to the Marquis of Tang, and later became the first king of . It's a famous historic event and the origin for the Chinese phrase ''Tongye Fenghou'' . His offspring continued using ''Tang'' as their surname.
Notable people
* Tang of Shang : King of Shang Dynasty
* Tang Shuyu: King of
* Tang Yin : Ming Dynasty official, painter, calligraphist, poet, literator
* Tang Ching-sung : the first President of the Republic of Formosa
* Tang Shaoyi : Prime Minister of the Republic of China
* Tang Jiyao : general, warlord
* Tang Shengzhi : general, warlord
* Tang Junyi : philosopher
* Tang Ti-sheng : opera playwright, scriptwriter, film director
* Tang Fei : the Premier of the Republic of China
* Tang Jiaxuan : the Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China
* Henry Tang : Hong Kong politician and official
Related topic
* Tang Dynasty
Toy (surname)
Toy is a surname, and may refer to:
*Ah Toy , Chinese-American prostitute and madam in San Francisco
*Camden Toy , American actor and script writer
*Crawford Howell Toy , American Hebrew scholar
* , American professional baseball player
*Jim Toy , American LGBT activist
*Michael Toy , computer programmer and game developer
*Sam Toy , American industrialist; chairman of Ford Motor Company 1980–86
*Ah Toy , Chinese-American prostitute and madam in San Francisco
*Camden Toy , American actor and script writer
*Crawford Howell Toy , American Hebrew scholar
* , American professional baseball player
*Jim Toy , American LGBT activist
*Michael Toy , computer programmer and game developer
*Sam Toy , American industrialist; chairman of Ford Motor Company 1980–86
Teng
Teng can refer to two distinct Chinese surnames.
Most commonly, it is an alternate spelling of the Chinese surname used especially in Taiwan based on the Wade-Giles transliteration of . This spelling is used in many English language sources on China written before the widespread adoption of the pinyin transliteration system in the 1980s. For example, Deng Xiaoping was written "Teng Hsiao-p'ing."
However, Teng is also a different and much rarer Chinese surname derived from in the . It is ''Tàhng'' in and is usually Romanized as "Tang" in Hong Kong. It is ''Têng'' in Minnan .
Persons surnamed Teng include:
*Teng Biao , Beijing, China-based human rights lawyer
*Teng Haibin , gymnast from Beijing, China
*Joyce Tang , Hong Kong celebrity
*Lee C. Teng, Chinese-American Accelerator Physicist
*Teng Xiu , Wu minister during the Three Kingdoms period
*Teng Yin , Wu minister during the Three Kingdoms period
*Empress Teng , empress of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of China
Other persons named Teng include:
*Tais Teng, Dutch writer
*Vienna Teng, American singer
*Shanghua Teng , computer scientist
Most commonly, it is an alternate spelling of the Chinese surname used especially in Taiwan based on the Wade-Giles transliteration of . This spelling is used in many English language sources on China written before the widespread adoption of the pinyin transliteration system in the 1980s. For example, Deng Xiaoping was written "Teng Hsiao-p'ing."
However, Teng is also a different and much rarer Chinese surname derived from in the . It is ''Tàhng'' in and is usually Romanized as "Tang" in Hong Kong. It is ''Têng'' in Minnan .
Notable persons with the surname Teng
Persons surnamed Teng include:
*Teng Biao , Beijing, China-based human rights lawyer
*Teng Haibin , gymnast from Beijing, China
*Joyce Tang , Hong Kong celebrity
*Lee C. Teng, Chinese-American Accelerator Physicist
*Teng Xiu , Wu minister during the Three Kingdoms period
*Teng Yin , Wu minister during the Three Kingdoms period
*Empress Teng , empress of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of China
Other persons named Teng include:
*Tais Teng, Dutch writer
*Vienna Teng, American singer
*Shanghua Teng , computer scientist
Tan (surname)
Tan and Tam is a Chinese surname. In a 2006 study of the 100 most common Chinese surnames, Tan was found to be the 67th most common.
Two origins have been suggested for the Tan surname:
* The surname came from the ancient , which was located in the western part of what is now Shandong Province. During the Spring and Autumn Period, this state was conquered by the neighbouring . The court changed their surname to Tan in remembrance of their defeated homeland, and later prospered in Hunan Province.
* The surname came from the less common surname 談, another with the same pronunciation in Mandarin and Cantonese. In order to avoid the revenge of their enemies, the clan leaders changed it to 譚.
A study by geneticist Yuan Yida has found that people with either of the two Tan surnames are especially concentrated in Hunan Province which would tend to support these accounts. This does not mean that they are the most common surnames in that province.
''Tán'' is the Chinese character's pinyin romanisation in . It is pronounced and romanised differently in different languages and dialects.
*In , it is romanised as ''Taam4'' in Jyutping and ''Tàahm'' in . It can also be romanised as ''Tam''.
*In Taishanese, it may be romanised as ''Tom'', ''Thom'', ''Hom'', ''Ham'', or ''Hum''.
*In Min Nan, it is romanised as ''Th?m'' in POJ.
*In , it is spelt as ''?àm''.
*Alan Tam
*Amy Tan
*Tan Dun
*Tam Kung
*Patrick Tam Kar Ming
*Patrick Tam Yiu Man
*Roman Tam
*Tan Sitong
*Steven Tan
*River Tam
*Simon Tam
*Dana Tan
*Bei Hou
Origin
Two origins have been suggested for the Tan surname:
* The surname came from the ancient , which was located in the western part of what is now Shandong Province. During the Spring and Autumn Period, this state was conquered by the neighbouring . The court changed their surname to Tan in remembrance of their defeated homeland, and later prospered in Hunan Province.
* The surname came from the less common surname 談, another with the same pronunciation in Mandarin and Cantonese. In order to avoid the revenge of their enemies, the clan leaders changed it to 譚.
A study by geneticist Yuan Yida has found that people with either of the two Tan surnames are especially concentrated in Hunan Province which would tend to support these accounts. This does not mean that they are the most common surnames in that province.
Romanisation and pronunciation
''Tán'' is the Chinese character's pinyin romanisation in . It is pronounced and romanised differently in different languages and dialects.
*In , it is romanised as ''Taam4'' in Jyutping and ''Tàahm'' in . It can also be romanised as ''Tam''.
*In Taishanese, it may be romanised as ''Tom'', ''Thom'', ''Hom'', ''Ham'', or ''Hum''.
*In Min Nan, it is romanised as ''Th?m'' in POJ.
*In , it is spelt as ''?àm''.
Prominent people
*Alan Tam
*Amy Tan
*Tan Dun
*Tam Kung
*Patrick Tam Kar Ming
*Patrick Tam Yiu Man
*Roman Tam
*Tan Sitong
*Steven Tan
Fictional people
*River Tam
*Simon Tam
*Dana Tan
Clan villages
*Bei Hou
Sun (surname)
Sun is a transliteration of a common Chinese surname, written 孫 or 孙 in Chinese characters, ''sūn'' in . Other common transliterations include Suen , T?n .
For Hong Kong, surname 辛 is translated as Sun.
*The rulers of the Kingdom of Wu in the Three Kingdoms period
*Sun Tzu
*Sun Bin
*Sun Caiyun
*Sun Yat-sen
*Sun Wukong
*Sun Li-jen
*Sun Jihai
*Michael Suen
*Soon Sien Fong
For Hong Kong, surname 辛 is translated as Sun.
Prominent people with Family Name 孫
*The rulers of the Kingdom of Wu in the Three Kingdoms period
*Sun Tzu
*Sun Bin
*Sun Caiyun
*Sun Yat-sen
*Sun Wukong
*Sun Li-jen
*Sun Jihai
*Michael Suen
*Soon Sien Fong
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