Chinese surname
Surname Ang
洪 · 翁
Ang is a Chinese surname, the Hokkien spelling of 洪 ('flood' or 'vast'); it can also stand for 翁 ('old man').
Characters for the surname Ang
The spelling Ang is common in Hokkien romanization.
- 洪
flood; vast, grand; surname
Hokkien âng / Mandarin hóng
attested
- 翁
old man; father; surname
Hokkien ang / Mandarin wēng
Possible characters for Ang
| Character | Mandarin reading · romanization of the spelling |
|---|---|
| 洪 | hóng · Hokkien |
| 翁 | wēng · Hokkien |
Other spellings of the same character
- Hong 洪Cantonese, Hokkien, Mandarin (pinyin)
About the surname Ang
Ang is the Hokkien spelling of the surname 洪, read âng in everyday Hokkien. The same character is spelled Hong in Mandarin and read hung4 in Cantonese. The character 翁 (Mandarin Weng) also has the Hokkien reading ang, so the spelling can stand for it too. 洪 is recorded in public data for Malaysians with this spelling; what a surname means depends on the characters a family uses.
Sources
- Wiktionary: 洪 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
- MDBG: 洪 · mdbg.net · meaning
- Wiktionary: 翁 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
- MDBG: 翁 · mdbg.net · meaning
- Wiktionary: Ang (English surname) · en.wiktionary.org · romanization
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