GGood Chinese Name

Chinese surname · rank 58

汪

汪 is read as wāng.

Pinyin

wāng

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 汪

Basic meaning

deep and broad water

Five element

Water

Origin

Time: Ancient Wangmang/Wangwang surname traditions; Spring and Autumn Lu fief branch also recorded; Ancient surname tradition, before 221 BCE; exact calendar year not pinned by the attached sources

Place: Multiple traditions, including Zhejiang/Wukang Wangmang material and a Lu-state Pingyang branch in today's Shandong

Origin note

Wang surname traditions are multi-source. One line connects this surname with ancient Wangmang or Wangwang traditions; another connects it with a Lu-state branch in which descendants used a fief or ancestor-name layer as the surname. The page keeps the water meaning separate from these transmitted surname-origin accounts.

Historical figures

汪中 (Wang Zhong)

1744-1794 CE · Qing scholar

A Qing evidential scholar and writer.

汪藻 (Wang Zao)

1079-1154 CE · Song writer and official

A Song literary and official figure.

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