单
shàn · Shan
- Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
- No. 182
- Ancestral seat (junwang)
- 南安
- Wikidata
- Q845673
In other languages
- German Shan
- English Shan
- Spanish Shan
- French Shan
- Japanese 単
- Korean 산
- Russian Шань
- Vietnamese Thiện
- Traditional Chinese 單
Notable historical bearers
Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.
- Paul Shan Kuo-hsi1923 – 2012
Catholic cardinal (1923–2012)
- Shan Tinggui? – 1120
Water Margin character
- Shan Tianfang1934 – 2018
Chinese actor
- Shan Xiongxin581 – 621
- Empress Dan250 – 310
Chinese empress
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 单 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).