Kwan (surname)
| Guan (关 / 關) | |
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| Pronunciation |
Guān (Mandarin) |
| Language(s) | Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese |
| Origin | |
| Language(s) | Chinese |
| Word/Name | China |
| Meaning | Close |
Guān (Mandarin)
Kwan (Hong Kong and overseas Chinese)
Kuan (Macao, Taiwan, and overseas Chinese)
Quan (Vietnamese and overseas Chinese)
Kwon (Korean)
Guan (simplified Chinese: 关; traditional Chinese: 關; pinyin: Guān) is a Chinese surname. Guan is 394th in the Hundred Family Surnames.
In Hong Kong, the surname is romanised as Kwan in Cantonese. In Taiwan, the Wade–Giles spelling Kuan is used. In Macao, the surname is as Kuan due to the Portuguese influence.
In many overseas Chinese communities, both spellings, Kuan and Kwan, as well as Quan, are common.
It is also a Vietnamese surname that uses the same character, romanised as Quan.
It is Romanized Kwon in Korean.
It is also a Japanese surname, Seki (Japanese: 関), that uses the same character.
The Vietnamese surname, Quan and the Japanese surname, Seki, was derived from the same Chinese character as the Chinese surname (The Japanese Kanji 関 is a Shinjitai of the Chinese character 關).
A number of groups in different geographic areas are believed to have shared the surname in history.
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