GGood Chinese Name

Chinese surname · rank 407

广

广 is read as guǎng.

Pinyin

guǎng

Script forms

Simplified 广 · Traditional 廣

Basic meaning

wide, extensive, broad; rad. 53

Five element

Earth

Origin

Time: Song textual or Bai Jia Xing layer, 960-1279 CE

Place: Kongtong Mountain / Pingliang, Gansu in Guangchengzi legend; Qing Guangyuan official-family layer; Baijiaxing list context using traditional Guang/廣

Origin note

Guang/广 is handled as the simplified row form of the traditional surname 廣. The older layer is a legendary ancestor-name tradition around Guangchengzi, in which descendants used Guangcheng and later shortened it to Guang; the page states this as a received surname tradition, not as verifiable ancient biography. A separate Qing layer records descendants of Guangyuan adopting Guang from a personal name. The ordinary meaning broad or wide is kept separate from the surname origin.

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