Chinese surnames

山

shān · Shān

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 226
Ancestral seat (junwang)
河南
Wikidata
Q11045088

In other languages

  • German Sơn
  • English Shān
  • Spanish Sơn
  • French Sơn
  • Vietnamese Sơn

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Shan Tao205 – 283

    one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove (205-283)

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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).