Wāng
Chinese surname / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wāng (汪) is a Chinese surname. It was 104th of the Hundred Family Surnames poem, contained in the verse Yáo, Shào, Zhàn, Wāng (姚邵湛汪). In 2013, the Fuxi Cultural Association found the name to be the 60th most common in China, being shared by around 4.83 million people or 0.360% of the population, with the province with the largest population being Anhui. Another study found it to be the 58th-most-common surname[when?] in mainland China.[citation needed]
Romanisation | Wang (Wāng), Waung, Wong, Vong |
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Language(s) | Chinese |
Meaning | "deep" "puddle" (archaic) |
It is also Wong in Cantonese, Ong or Ang in Hokkien, Waung or Vong in American English, and Ō or Oh in Japanese. However, in Vietnamese, it is written Uông. Wāng was listed by the NCIIS survey as the 58th most common surname in mainland China[1] and by Yang Xuxian as the 76th most common surname on Taiwan.[2]