晏
yàn · Yan
- Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
- No. 322
- Ancestral seat (junwang)
- 齐郡
- Wikidata
- Q11089431
In other languages
- German Yàn
- English Yan
- Spanish Yàn
- French Yàn
- Korean 옌
- Vietnamese Yến
Notable historical bearers
Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.
- Yan Ying578 BCE – 500 BCE
ancient Chinese philosopher and politician from the state of Qi in the 6th century BC
- Yan Shu991 – 1055
Chinese statesman, poet, calligrapher and literary figure of the Song dynasty
- Yan Jidao1038 – 1110
Song dynasty poet
- Y. C. James Yen1890 – 1990
Chinese educator
- Yan Ming? – 208
character from Romance of the Three Kingdoms
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 晏 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).