颜
yán · Yan
- Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
- No. 143
- Ancestral seat (junwang)
- 鲁郡
- Wikidata
- Q6664314
In other languages
- German Yan
- English Yan
- Spanish Yan
- French Yan
- Japanese 顔
- Korean 옌
- Vietnamese Nhan
- Traditional Chinese 顏
Notable historical bearers
Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.
- Yan Hui521 BCE – 481 BCE
Chinese philosopher (c. 521–481 BC)
- Yan Zhenqing709 – 785
Chinese calligrapher (709-785)
- Yan Huiqing1877 – 1950
Premier of Republic of China (1877-1950)
- Yan Liang200 – 200
Military general under warlord Yuan Shao (died 200)
- Romina Yan1974 – 2010
Argentine actress, television personality and screenwriter (1974-2010)
- Yan Yuan1635 – 1704
Chinese philosopher
- Yan Zhitui531 – 591
Chinese artist-scholar (531–591)
- Yan Shigu581 – 645
Chinese linguist
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 颜 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).