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Chinese surname

Wang: Wáng; in Jyutping: Wong4) is one of the most common Chinese family names. In a 2002 study, Wang was ranked second most common in Mainland China. It literally means "king” (see Chinese noble#Wang), although bearing the name has no royal implications. The “-ang” sound in pinyin is supposed to be pronounced as in German, but the name is frequently mispronounced by American English speakers as IPA [wæŋ], rather than [waŋ], its correct pronunciation. The name is also frequently transliterated into 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 transliteration of 汪 (pinyin Wāng), a less common surname among the Hundred Family Names.

It is also the Cantonese Romanization of some uncommon family names: 橫 (Pinyin: Héng), 弘 (Hóng), 閎 (Hóng), 宏 (Hóng).

Hmong surname

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 surname

Template:Koreanname noimage Wang is a Korean family name 왕 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. [1]

Wang was one of the most powerful clans in the Chinese commanderies on the Korean Peninsula. According to the Houhanshu, its ancestor Wang Zhong originally lived in Qi (Shandong) in the 2nd century B.C.E., but fled to Lelang 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.

Japanese surname

Ō (often romanized as "Oh" or "O") is a rare Japanese family name which is the equivalence of Wang. Ō is the way Japanese pronounce the character 王. Most Japanese with this family name are of Chinese descent.^{[citation needed]}

Vietnamese surname

The name Wang in Vietnamese is Vương.

Prominent people with the family name 왕

The royal family of the Goryeo Dynasty
Jun Ji-hyun

Prominent people with the family name Wang 王

Note: people with the family name “Ō” are listed in the “Ō” article.

An Wang, computer scientist who founded Wang Laboratories
Wang Anshi, politician during the Song Dynasty.
Charles Wang, co-founder of Computer Associates International Inc.
Wang Chien-shien (王建煊), politician of the Republic of China
Wang Chien-Ming (王建民), a Taiwanese baseball pitcher of the New York Yankees
Wang Chong (27–97 C.E.), Chinese philosopher
Wang Chong, general during the Three Kingdoms period
Wang Chongyang, Taoist
Wang David, former Chinese ambassador to Australia.
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 Jin Dynasty
Wang Fanxi, Trotskyist
Wang Fuzhi (1619–1693 C.E.) Chinese philosopher and historian
Garrett Wang, Chinese American actor
Wang Guangya, UN ambassador
Wang Hao, Chinese-American logician, philosopher and mathematician
Wang Jin-pyng (王金平), Taiwan politician
Wang Mang, founder of Xin Dynasty
Wang Meng, chief advisor of Fu Jiān.
Wang Pi, Taoist philosopher during the Three Kingdoms
Wang Shiyan, Chinese Painter
Wang Shizhen, Yuan Shikai's Beiyang subordinate
Wang Tao, (1828-1897) Reformer, political essayist, newspaper publisher, fiction writer
Wang Wei, Tang Dynasty Chinese poet
Vera Wang, designer
Wayne Wang, movie director
Winston Wong, Taiwanese businessman
Wang Xizhi, calligrapher during the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Wang Yan, statesman and Taoist philosopher during the Western Jin 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
Faye Wong, singer
Wong Kar-wai, movie director

Prominent people with the family name 汪

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

Fictional characters

Wang Shizhen, a character in Hikaru no Go
Amy Wong, a character from Futurama
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

External link

Chinese surname history: Wang