Hong (surname)

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Hong is the

Wade-Giles
.

"Hong" is also one spelling employed for the

Cantonese pronunciation of the surname Xiong (
).

The

Teochew romanization of Hong (that uses the character 洪) is Ang, which is also used for Wang (
, Wāng).

It is also the romanization used for the Korean surname Hong, which uses the character 洪 in hanja, the Khmer surname ហុង (Hong), as well as the surname Hồng in Vietnam, from the Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese character 洪.

Origin

The name literally means "flood".

The legendary origin of the family links it to descendants of the

Ordos Loop above the Wei
.

After the

Yao Emperor when they opposed some of his orders. A second army brought a second defeat and the Yao Emperor banished the Gonggong to Jiangnan
.

When the Chinese ceased to have both ancestral and clan names, many Gonggongs combined the water

radical from jiang with the character gong to produce Hong.[dubious
]

Ancestral centers

Dunhuang in Gansu and Nanchang in Jiangxi.[citation needed]

List of persons with the surname

Hong

Hung

Ang

References