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Surname Bong

黃 · 邦

Bong is a Chinese surname, among others a Hakka spelling of the character 黃, meaning yellow.

Characters for the surname Bong

The spelling Bong is common in Hakka and Cantonese romanization.

  • 黃

    yellow; surname

    Hakka vòng / Mandarin huáng

  • 黄

    simplified form of 黃: yellow; surname

    Hakka vòng / Mandarin huáng (simplified form of 黃)

    attested

  • 邦

    nation, state; surname

    Cantonese bong1 / Mandarin bāng

黃 all spellings of huáng邦 all spellings of bāng

Possible characters for Bong

Bong 黃 huáng · Hakka 邦 bāng · Cantonese
The spelling Bong can stand for 2 characters. The spelling alone does not show which one a family uses.
CharacterMandarin reading · romanization of the spelling
黃huáng · Hakka
邦bāng · Cantonese

Other spellings of the same character

  • Wong 黃Cantonese, Hakka
  • Ooi 黃Hokkien
  • Wee 黃Hokkien
  • Huang 黃Mandarin (pinyin)
  • Ng 黃Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien, Teochew

About the surname Bong

Bong is one Hakka spelling of the surname 黃 / 黄 (Mandarin Huang), read vòng in Hakka and more often spelt Wong or Vong. The spelling also fits the surname 邦, read bong1 in Cantonese. The meaning depends on the character a family uses.

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: 黃 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 黃 · mdbg.net · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 黄 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 黄 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 邦 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 邦 · mdbg.net · meaning
  7. Wikipedia: Huang (surname) · en.wikipedia.org · spelling

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