Chinese surnames

杭

háng · Hang

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 183
Ancestral seat (junwang)
余杭
Wikidata
Q11102373

In other languages

  • German Hàng
  • English Hang
  • Spanish Hàng
  • French Hàng
  • Korean 항
  • Vietnamese Hàng

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Empress Hang1427 – 1456

    Chinese Empress consort

  • Han Lih-wu1903 – 1991

    Chinese educator, politician and diplomat

  • Shijun Hang1696 – 1773

    Chinese painter, born 1696, in Hangzhou (Zhejiang), China; died 1773

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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).