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Chinese name syllable

Syllable Pang

  • 邦nation; country; state
  • 鵬peng, a giant bird of Chinese myth
  • 彭a surname; (archaic) sound of drumming
Letters
4
Syllables
1
First letter
P
Romanization
Hokkien, Hakka
Character options
3
Category
Chinese syllable
  • Chinese characters邦鵬彭
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records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata have the syllable Pang in their name

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Pang is a Chinese name syllable from Hokkien, Hakka or Cantonese, as in 邦 (nation) or 鵬 (a giant mythical bird); the meaning depends on the characters chosen.

Possible characters for Pang

This spelling is common in Hokkien, Hakka and Cantonese romanization.

  • 邦

    nation; country; state

    Hokkien pang / Hakka pâng / Mandarin bāng

    attested

  • 鵬

    peng, a giant bird of Chinese myth

    Cantonese paang4 / Mandarin péng

  • 彭

    a surname; (archaic) sound of drumming

    Cantonese paang4 / Hakka phàng / Mandarin péng

One spelling can stand for several characters. The meaning of a name depends on the characters the family chose; characters marked “attested” are found in records of real names.

About the name Pang

Pang spells several sounds: Hokkien pang, Hakka pâng or phàng, and Cantonese paang4. The character 邦 (nation), read pang in Hokkien, is recorded for Malaysians with this spelling; 鵬 (a giant mythical bird) and 彭 (a surname) are read paang4 in Cantonese. The meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

RomanizationHokkien, Hakka, Cantonese

Character pages

Each page shows the character’s recorded meanings, dialect readings and every Malaysian spelling.

Chinese names with the syllable Pang

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: 邦 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: 鵬 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. MDBG: 鵬 · mdbg.net · meaning
  4. Wiktionary: 彭 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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