燕
yàn · Yan
- Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
- No. 313
- Ancestral seat (junwang)
- 范阳
- Wikidata
- Q13392077
In other languages
- English Yan
- Korean 옌
- Vietnamese Yến
Notable historical bearers
Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.
- Crown Prince Dan? – 226 BCE
crown Price of State of Yan
- Yan Qing
Water Margin character
- Yan Shun? – 1120
Water Margin character
- Xi of Yan? – 222 BCE
Chinese king of Yan state from 255 to 222 BC
- Yan Wengui967 – 1044
painter (967-1044)
- Yan Defei609 – 671
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 燕 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).