Chinese surnames

昌

chāng · Chāng

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 51
Ancestral seat (junwang)
汝南
Wikidata
Q11087572

In other languages

  • English Chāng

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Chāng Xī? – 206

    late Eastern Han rebel leader executed by Yu Jin

  • Chang Yizhi450 – 523

    General of Liang Dynasty

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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.

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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).