Jiang (surname)
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Jiang surname in regular script
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| Pronunciation | Jiāng (Pinyin) Kang (Pe̍h-ōe-jī) |
| Language(s) | Chinese |
| Origin | |
| Language(s) | Chinese |
| Word/Name | name of an autonomous Chinese kingdom |
| Derivation | Jiangguo (江国) |
| Meaning | great river |
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| Variant(s) | Jiang, Chiang (Mandarin) Kong, Gong (Cantonese, Hakka) Kang (Hokkien) |
| Cognate(s) | Yíng (Chinese surname) |
| Derivative(s) | Kang (Korean name) |
| See also | Boyi (伯益) |
Jiang can be a pinyin transliteration of one of several Chinese surnames:
Jiang (Chinese: 江; Jyutping: Gong1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kang, also romanized Chiang, Kong, Kang) is a Chinese surname, accounting for 0.26% of the Han Chinese population. It is the 52nd most common Chinese surname and is the 141st surname listed in the Hundred Family Surnames poem. It is the 74th most common surname in China (2007), and the 25th most common surname in Taiwan (2010).
After Boyi helped Yu the Great bring flood control to the early Chinese, Yu's son and successor Qi of Xia offered Boyi's son, Xuanzhong, the position of Lord of Jiangdi (Chinese: 江地 - modern Jiangling County in Hubei Province). Boyi's descendants ruled the area as kings of an autonomous "River Kingdom" (Chinese: 江国; pinyin: Jiāng Guó) during the Shang Dynasty and Western Zhou Dynasty, with its capital city near today's Zhengyang County, Henan Province.
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