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wén · Wen
- Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
- No. 287
- Ancestral seat (junwang)
- 吴兴
- Wikidata
- Q12010490
In other languages
- German Wen
- English Wen
- Spanish Wen
- French Wen
- Vietnamese Wen
- Traditional Chinese 聞
Notable historical bearers
Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.
- Wen Yiduo1899 – 1946
Chinese poet and scholar (1899–1946)
- Wen Zhong? – 1100 BCE
Investiture of the Gods character
- Wen Shizhen1940 – 2021
Chinese politician, former governor and CPC secretary of Liaoning
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 闻 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).