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Wang.

A surname from Chinese.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

name/wæŋ//wɔŋ/
  1. A surname from Chinese.

  2. A surname from Korean [in turn from Chinese].

Where this word comes from

From various romanizations of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 王 (Wáng) or 汪 (Wāng). Doublet of Wong, Heng, Ong, and Vuong. As a Korean surname, from 왕 (wang), from the above.

name/wæŋ//wɔŋ/
  1. A surname from Danish, variant of Vang.

Where this word comes from

As a Danish surname, from Vang. As a German and Dutch surname, from wang (“cheek”) and obsolete derivatives of Proto-Germanic *wangaz (“field, meadow”). As a Jewish surname, from the German sense, and also a nickname for someone from Hungary (compare Russian Венгрия (Vengrija)). As a North Germanic surname, spelling variant of Vang.

name/wæŋ//wɔŋ/
  1. A Meitei surname from Manipuri, variant of Wangjam, Wangkheimayum, Wangkheimayum, and Wangmayum.

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯋꯥꯡ (wāng).

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