Tāng (surname)
Appearance
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Language(s) | Han Chinese |
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Origin | |
Language(s) | Old Chinese |
Derivation | Diku (帝嚳) the Gaoxin (高辛) Tang of Shang (商湯) |
Meaning | Tang the Boil Shang the Sloosh Yang the Sunrise |
Other names | |
Variant form(s) | Teng, Deng |
Derivative(s) | Shang, Yang |
See also | Shang Dynasty |
Tāng (/tɑːŋ/;[1] simplified Chinese: 汤; traditional Chinese: 湯; pinyin: tāng) is a Chinese surname. It is 72nd surname in the Hundred Family Surnames or Baijiaxing of the Song Dynasty and 101st in modern popularity.[2] The Tang (湯) family name comes from various people of the Shang Dynasty and some nomadic Chinese people.
Tang is a common form of other Chinese surnames Deng and Teng.
Notable people
- Tang Xianzu (1550–1616), Chinese playwright
- Tang Enbo (1898–1954), Nationalist general in the Republic of China
- Tang Xiaodan (1910–2012), Chinese film director
- Tang Yuhan (1913–2014), Hong Kong doctor and oncologist
- Tang Yijie (1927–2014), Chinese scholar and professor
- John Tong Hon (born 1939), Chinese Roman Catholic cardinal and Bishop of Hong Kong
- Ronny Tong (born 1950), Hong Kong politician
- Timothy Tong (born 1950), Hong Kong commissioner
- Kent Tong (born 1958), Hong Kong actor
- Tang Sulan (born 1965), Chinese writer and politician
- Angela Tong (born 1975), Hong Kong actress
- Tang Jiali (born 1976), Chinese dancer and model
- Tang Wei (born 1979), Chinese actress
See also
- Táng (surname) (唐)
- Deng (surname) (鄧)
- Teng (surname) (滕)
References
- ^ "Tang". Collins English Dictionary.
- ^ Tang surname No. 72 in Baijiaxing and No. 101 in the "New Baijiaxing"