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Ng (pronounced ; English approximation often / ə ŋ / əng or / ɪ ŋ / ing or / ɛ ŋ / eng) is both a Cantonese transliteration of the Chinese surnames 吳/吴 (Mandarin Wú) and 伍 (Mandarin Wǔ) and also a common Hokkien transcription of the surname 黃/黄 (Pe̍h-ōe-jī: N̂ɡ, Mandarin Huáng).
Additionally, some Vietnamese names can only be differentiated via context or with their corresponding chữ Hán, such as 南 ("south") or 男 ("men", "boy"), both are read as Nam. Anyone applying for Vietnamese nationality must also adopt a Vietnamese name. [2] Vietnamese names have corresponding Hán character adopted early on during Chinese ...
From 457 to Hồ Quý Ly (1401), in Hải Dương and a part of Haiphong today there is the district of the Phí family (Vietnamese: huyện Phí Gia). At the end of the Lý and the Trần dynasty there were many people who changed their names to Nguyễn and Nguyễn Phí. By the Lê dynasty, the court changed the name of the district to Kim ...
Huang (Chinese: 黃/皇) used in Mandarin; Hwang (Korean: 황; Hanja: 黃/皇) used in Korean; Huỳnh or Hoàng used in Vietnamese. Huỳnh is the cognate adopted in Southern and most parts of Central Vietnam because of a naming taboo decree banning the surname Hoàng, due to similarity between the surname and the name of Lord Nguyễn Hoàng.
Vietnamese personal names are usually three syllables long, but may also be two or four syllables. The first syllable is the family name or surname.Because certain family names, notably Nguyen, are extremely common, they cannot be used to distinguish among individuals in the manner customary in English.
Ngô Thanh Vân, Vietnamese actress; Ngô Tự Lập, Vietnamese writer, poet, essayist, translator and songwriter; Ngô Ngọc Hưng, Vietnamese singer based in South Korea; founder and leader of C.A.C., contestant on the Korean survival program I-Land (11th place) Andy Ngo, American conservative activist and journalist
Nguyễn is the most common Vietnamese surname, held by an estimated 40 percent of Vietnamese people. Outside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics, as Nguyen . The following is an incomplete list of individuals with this surname.
Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ (Vietnamese pronunciation: [ŋwiən˦ˀ˥ ŋawk͡p̚˧˨ʔ tʰəː˧˧]; chữ Hán: 阮 玉 書 26 May 1908 – 12 June 1976) [1] was a South Vietnamese politician who was the first vice president of South Vietnam, serving under President Ngô Đình Diệm from 1956 until Diệm's overthrow and assassination in 1963.