GGood Chinese Name

Chinese surname · rank 113

庄

庄 is read as zhuāng.

Pinyin

zhuāng

Script forms

Simplified 庄 · Traditional 莊

Basic meaning

solemn; village; manor

Five element

Wood

Origin

Time: Zhou posthumous-title traditions; later Eastern Han taboo-related branch history; Eastern Han textual layer, 25-220 CE

Place: Multiple Zhou-state lineages; later Zhuang-to-Yan written-form history in Han records

Origin note

Zhuang surname traditions include posthumous-title branches. It also matters because some lineages later changed 庄 to 严 during Eastern Han name-taboo history.

Historical figures

庄周 (Zhuang Zhou)

c. 4th century BCE · philosopher

The thinker traditionally associated with the Zhuangzi.

庄存与 (Zhuang Cunyu)

1719-1788 CE · Qing scholar

A Qing classical scholar of the Changzhou school.

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