Weng (surname)
Appearance
Pronunciation | Wēng (Pinyin) Ang (Pe̍h-ōe-jī) |
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Language(s) | Chinese |
Origin | |
Language(s) | Chinese |
Meaning | old man, husband |
Other names | |
Variant form(s) | Weng (Mandarin) Yung (HK Cantonese) Iong (Macau Cantonese) Ang (Hokkien) |
Weng (Chinese: 翁; pinyin: Wēng), is a Chinese family name that ranked 200th place in the Hundred Family Surnames. It is romanised as Ang or Ong from Hokkien, and as Yung (Hong Kong spelling) or Iong (Macau spelling) from Cantonese.
Notable people
- Weng Tonghe (1830–1904), Chinese Confucian scholar
- Omar Yoke Lin Ong (1917–2010), Malaysian politician
- Wong Chin-chu (born 1947), Taiwanese politician