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xiàng · Xiang
- Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
- No. 335
- Ancestral seat (junwang)
- 河南
- Wikidata
- Q6844079
In other languages
- English Xiang
- Korean 샹
- Vietnamese Hướng
Notable historical bearers
Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.
- Xiang Jingyu1895 – 1928
Chinese politician (1895-1928)
- Xiang Zhongfa1880 – 1931
early senior leader of the Chinese Communist Party (1880-1931)
- Xiang Xiu250 – 275
3rd century Chinese scholar and writer
- Shō Shōken1617 – 1676
Sessei of Ryukyu; Ryūkyū scholar (1617-1676)
- Empress Qinsheng1047 – 1102
Song Dynasty empress
- Xiang Chong? – 240
State of Shu Han military officer (died 240)
- Xiang Rong1801 – 1856
Qing Dynasty politician
- Xiang Xuan1926 – 2023
Chinese soldier (1926-2023)
- Xiang Shouzhi1917 – 2017
Chinese general (1917-2017)
- Urasoe Chōshō1825 – 1883
Sanshikan of Ryukyu (1825-1883)
- Jimmy Heung1950 – 2014
Hong Kong businessman and film producer (1950-2014)
- Xiang Zhejun1892 – 1987
Chinese prosecutor of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East
Find printed genealogies
The Shanghai Library holds one of the largest collections of Chinese family genealogies (jiapu). Its genealogy platform lists each genealogy's title, ancestral place, founding ancestor, hall name and holding library. Search there by surname and your family's ancestral place.
Search 向 genealogies at the Shanghai Library ↗Sources: the Hundred Family Surnames (public domain) with ancestral seats from the chinese-poetry dataset (MIT); spellings and people from Wikidata (CC0).