Chinese surname · rank 261
匡
匡 is read as kuāng.
kuāng
Simplified and traditional 匡
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Time: Spring-and-Autumn place and office layers, Western Han Shandong record layer, Southern Qi Luling record layer, Jin-Yuan Pizhou layer, Yuan-Ming Shandong Jiaozhou clan layer, and later Kang-Kuang surname-evolution layer; Spring and Autumn tradition, 770-476 BCE
Place: Kuang places in Zheng, Wei, and Song contexts; Kuangyi around Changyuan or other transmitted locations; Kuangshan and Lushan/Kuanglu contexts; Donghai Cheng around today's Zaozhuang, Shandong; Luling around today's Ji'an, Jiangxi; Pizhou in Jiangsu; Jiaozhou in Shandong; southern Kang-Kuang lineages
Origin note
is a layered surname. One source-backed line is place-name based: Spring-and-Autumn states including Zheng, Wei, and Song had places called Kuang, and later residents or officials connected with those places used Kuang as a surname. A more specific place-office tradition names Juxu, a retainer of a Lu official, who served as magistrate of Kuangyi; descendants are said to have used the office place as their surname. A second line is official-title based: Zhou had an office called Kuangren, responsible for announcing rules and correcting state affairs, and some descendants may have used the office name. A third line is mountain-name based, from places called Kuangshan; Lushan was also called Kuanglu in older accounts. Later layers include minority changed-surname branches and southern Kang-Kuang interwoven lineages, which 23mofang treats cautiously as a later surname-evolution possibility.
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