Chinese surnames

养

yǎng · Yang

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 387
Ancestral seat (junwang)
山阳
Wikidata
Q10894630

In other languages

  • English Yang
  • Japanese 養
  • Korean 양
  • Traditional Chinese 養

Notable historical bearers

Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.

  • Yang Youji606 BCE – 559 BCE

    famous general and archer of the Chu state in the Spring and Autumn period

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Sources: the Hundred Family Surnames (public domain) with ancestral seats from the chinese-poetry dataset (MIT); spellings and people from Wikidata (CC0).