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Dǒng origins from: Zhu Rong (祝融) of Ji (己) family received the surname Dong (董) on the territory of the State of Chu.; Dongfu (董父) was a descendant of the ruler Shuan (叔安) in Chifeng, he married a daughter of Emperor Yao, and used the surname Dong (董).
People with this surname mainly have three originations: [6] From the clan name Tao-Tang (or Taotang, Tao Tang) . Tao-Tang was the clan name for Emperor Yao's tribe, so Yao is also known as Tang Yao (唐堯/唐尧) or Tang Fangxun (唐放勛/唐放勋) (Fangxun literally means great meritorious service or contribution).
Chinese surnames commonly romanized as "Tang" include Táng (唐) and Tāng (湯/汤). Tang is also occasionally used to romanize Deng (鄧/邓, Pinyin: Dèng) and Teng (滕, Pinyin: Téng), especially for persons of Hong Kong origin, based on Cantonese pronunciation.
A 2010 study by Baiju Shah & al data-mined the Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card recipients in the province of Ontario for a particularly Chinese-Canadian name list. Ignoring potentially non-Chinese spellings such as Lee (49,898 total), [24]: Table 1 they found that the most common Chinese names in Ontario were: [24]
It is 72nd surname in the Hundred Family Surnames or Baijiaxing of the Song dynasty and 101st in modern [when?] popularity. [2] The Tang (湯) family name traces its lineage from Tang of Shang, the first ruler of the Shang dynasty. [3] In modern times the character can also mean "soup" or "broth". In Cantonese the surname is pronounced Tong or ...
Teng (Chinese: 滕; pinyin: Téng; Wade–Giles: T'eng 2) is a Chinese surname derived from State of Teng (Imperial clan descendants) in the Western Zhou dynasty. [1] It is the 73rd name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem. [2] It is T'eng in Wade–Giles, Tàhng in Cantonese and is usually Romanized as "Tang" in Hong Kong. It is Têng in ...
Tong is a Chinese surname. Tong as transcribed in English however represents of a number of different Chinese surnames. There were 8,589 Tongs in the United States during the year 2000 census, making it the 3,075th surname overall and the 121st surname among Asian and Pacific Islanders.
Vernicia fordii or Tung tree, a deciduous tree native to China Tung oil, a furniture finish made from the seeds of the tung tree; Tung (surname), a Cantonese Romanization of Chinese family names 董, commonly used in Hong Kong; Tung, the original Webster spelling of tongue [citation needed] Tunng, an experimental folk band from the United Kingdom