GGood Chinese Name

Chinese surname · rank 110

庞

庞 is read as páng.

Pinyin

páng

Script forms

Simplified 庞 · Traditional 龐

Basic meaning

large; vast

Five element

Earth

Origin

Time: Zhou-period Pang place/ancestor traditions; Zhou-period tradition, 1046-256 BCE

Place: Central-plains and later northern place traditions

Origin note

Pang surname traditions include ancient place and ancestor-name explanations. Because precise locality varies, the page records it conservatively as a Zhou-period place/ancestor surname.

Historical figures

庞统 (Pang Tong)

179-214 CE · Three Kingdoms strategist

A Shu Han adviser in Three Kingdoms history.

庞德 (Pang De)

died 219 CE · late Han general

A military figure who served Ma Teng and Cao Cao.

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