Yang (surname)
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Yang surname in regular script
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| Pronunciation | Yáng (Pinyin) Iûⁿ, Iông (Pe̍h-ōe-jī) |
| Language(s) | Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean |
| Origin | |
| Language(s) | Old Chinese |
| Meaning | Aspen |
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| Variant(s) | Yang (Mandarin) Yaj (Hmong) Yeung, Yeong, Young, Ieong (Cantonese) Yong (Hakka) Yeo, Yeoh, Yiu; Njoo, Nyoo, Ngeo (Hokkien) Yeo, Yeoh (Teochew) Yang (Korean) Dương (Vietnamese) |
| Derivative(s) | Dương |
| See also | Ji (surname) |
Yang (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Yáng) is the transcription of a Chinese family name. It is the sixth most common surname in Mainland China.
The Yang surname members adopted many local sounding and customizable Western style or another language beside Mandarin Chinese last names with even neutralization name and changes rapidly through generations, but some still preserved Mandarin Chinese character name as secondary name beside the legal name, and appear a lot in some countries like Laos, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, etc. Some examples of it are Karen and another names at Thailand.
The Yang clan was founded by Boqiao, son of Duke Wu of Jin in the Springs and Autumns Period of the Ji (姬) surname, the surname of the royal family during the Zhou dynasty (c. 8th to 5th Centuries BC) who was enfeoffed in the Yang kingdom.
Yang can also be the phonetic translation of a very rare Chinese family name 羊 and of another surname pronounced Yang (揚), written with a "hand" radical rather than the "wood" radical. The two characters were used interchangeably in ancient times, which is the Chinese character for Goat or Sheep.
Four proposed and linked historical origins are:
The Sui dynasty Emperors were from the northwest military aristocracy, and emphasized that their patrilineal ancestry was ethnic Han, claiming descent from the Han official Yang Zhen. and the New Book of Tang traced his patrilineal ancestry to the Zhou dynasty kings via the Dukes of Jin.
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