GGood Chinese Name

Chinese surname · rank 99

汤

汤 is read as tāng.

Pinyin

tāng

Script forms

Simplified 汤 · Traditional 湯

Basic meaning

hot water; soup; Tang of Shang

Five element

Water

Origin

Time: Shang founder Tang tradition, traditionally placed in the 2nd millennium BCE cultural layer

Place: Shang cultural memory in the ancient central plains, especially today's Henan region

Origin note

A major Tang surname tradition connects the name with Cheng Tang, founder of the Shang dynasty. This is an ancient dynastic cultural-memory layer, so the page presents it as transmitted tradition rather than a precise family-history proof for every Tang household.

Historical figures

汤显祖 (Tang Xianzu)

1550-1616 CE · Ming playwright

Author of The Peony Pavilion.

汤和 (Tang He)

1326-1395 CE · Ming general

A founding military figure of the Ming dynasty.

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