Wang
Wang is a and a in China and Korea.
This article is about Wang as surnames. See Chinese noble and Korean nobility for royalty rank.
Chinese surname
Wang (王 in pinyin: Wáng; in penkyamp & Jyutping: Wong4) is the commonest Chinese family name and literally means "king" (See Chinese noble#Wang), although the name itself has no royal implications. The "-ang" sound in pinyin is supposed to be pronounced as in German and so the name is frequently mispronounced by English speakers. The name is also frequently transliterated "Wong" especially for people from Hong Kong or from Guangdong. This other transliteration sounds much more similar to the Chinese pronunciation.
Wang is also the pinyin transliteration of 汪.
It is also is the Cantonese Romanization of some uncommon family names: 橫 (Pinyin: Héng), 弘 (Hóng), 閎 (Hóng), 宏 (Hóng).
Korean surname
Wang is a Korean family name 왕 but very rare in Korea. The Goryeo Dynasty royal family name was Wang. However, after the Goryeo Dynasty fell, the royal Wangs changed their surname to avoid severe persecution from the subsequent Joseon Dynasty.
Prominent people with surname 왕
- The royal family of Goryeo Dynasty
Prominent people with family name 王
- Wang Zhaojun, beauty married to foreigner chief
- Empress Dowager Wang, mother of Emperor Cheng of Han China and aunt of Wang Mang.
- Wang Mang, founder of Xin Dynasty
- Wang Chung, general during the Three Kingdoms
- Wang Pi, Taoist philosopher during the Three Kingdoms
- Wang Yan, stateman and Taoist philosopher during the Western Jin Dynasty.
- Wang Dao, stateman and chief advisor of Emperor Yuan of Jin China
- Wang Dun, ambitious militant of the Eastern Jin Dynasty
- Wang Meng, chief advisor of Fu Jian.
- Wang Xizhi, calligrapher during the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
- Wang An-shih, politican during the Song Dynasty.
- Wang Fuzhi, philosopher during late Ming Dynasty.
- Wang Shizhen, a Yuan Shikai's Beiyang subordinate
- Wang Chien-shien, politician of the Republic of China
- Wong Kar-wai, movie director
- An Wang, computer scientist who founded Wang Laboratories
- Vera Wang, designer
- Faye Wong, singer
Prominent people with family name 汪
Other
Wang is also a slang term for the penis.
Referenced By
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