GGood Chinese Name

Chinese surname · rank 97

孔

孔 is read as kǒng.

Pinyin

kǒng

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 孔

Basic meaning

hole; opening; very

Five element

Wood

Origin

Time: Spring and Autumn Lu / Song lineage tradition, around the 6th century BCE

Place: Lu state, today's Shandong Province; earlier Song-state ancestry in today's Henan

Origin note

Kong is one of the clearest surname pages because Confucius, Kong Qiu, anchors the historical layer. The family tradition connects him with Lu in Shandong and earlier Song-state ancestry.

Historical figures

孔子 (Kongzi / Confucius)

551-479 BCE · philosopher

The central figure of the Confucian tradition.

孔融 (Kong Rong)

153-208 CE · late Han writer and official

A late Eastern Han literary and political figure.

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