Chinese surnames

荆

jīng · Jing

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 397
Ancestral seat (junwang)
广陵
Wikidata
Q16260342

In other languages

  • English Jing
  • Japanese 荊
  • Korean 징
  • Vietnamese Kinh
  • Traditional Chinese 荊

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Jing Ke? – 227 BCE

    Qin Dynasty attempted assassin

  • Jing Hao855 – 915

    Chinese (Tang Dynasty) landscape painter (855-915)

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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).