Chinese surnames

韦

wéi · Wei

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 50
Ancestral seat (junwang)
京兆
Wikidata
Q6665383

In other languages

  • German Wei
  • English Wei
  • Japanese 韋
  • Korean 웨이
  • Vietnamese Vi
  • Traditional Chinese 韋

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Wei Yingwu737 – 792

    Tang Dynasty Chinese poet

  • Empress Wei664 – 710

    wife of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang (664-710)

  • Wei Zhuang836 – 910

    Chinese poet (836-910)

  • Wei Guoqing1913 – 1989

    Chinese general and government official (1913–1989)

  • Wei Changhui1823 – 1856

    North King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

  • Farong594 – 657

    Chinese Buddhist teacher

  • Wei Zhao204 – 273

    Eastern Wu scholar, historian and official (204–273)

  • Wei Xiaokuan509 – 580

    general

  • Wei Chueh1928 – 2016

    Taiwanese Buddhist monk

  • Wei Rui442 – 520

    general of Liang dynasty

  • Wei Chuhou773 – 828

    Tang Dynasty Buddhist

  • Wei Jiansu687 – 763

    Tang Dynasty chancellor (687-763)

  • Wei Baqun1894 – 1932

    Zhuang peasant revolutionary

  • Wei Zhaodu801 – 895

    Tang Dynasty chancellor

  • Wei Zhiyi701 – 800

    Tang Dynasty chancellor

  • Wei Gao745 – 805

    Tang dynasty general and military governor

  • Wei Kang101 – 213

    Chinese official and politician (died 213)

  • Huan Yanfan653 – 706

    Chinese judge

  • Wei Baoheng801 – 873

    Tang Dynasty chancellor

  • Wei Chengqing640 – 706

    Tang Dynasty chancellor

  • Empress Xianren1080 – 1159

    Song dynasty person (CBDB = 22282)

  • Wei Yuk Boshan1849 – 1921

    Hong Kong businessman

  • Wei Xiong502 – 578

    Northern Zhou person CBDB = 31004

  • Wei Shu? – 757

    Tang dynasty person CBDB = 32085

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.

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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).