Are you an EPFL student looking for a semester project?
Work with us on data science and visualisation projects, and deploy your project as an app on top of GraphSearch.
Concept
Huang (surname)
Summary
Huang (ˈhwɑːŋ; ) is a Chinese surname that originally means and refers to jade people were wearing and decorating in ancient times. While Huáng is the pinyin romanization of the word, it may also be romanized as Hwang, Wong, Waan, Wan, Waon, Hwong, Vong, Hung, Hong, Bong, Eng, Ng, Uy, Wee, Oi, Oei, Oey, Ooi, Ong, or Ung due to pronunciations of the word in different dialects and languages. It is the 96th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.
This surname is known as Hwang in Korean. In Vietnamese, the name is known as Hoàng or Huỳnh.
Huang is the 7th most common surname in China. Huynh is the 5th most common surname in Vietnam. The population of Huangs in China and Taiwan was estimated at more than 35 million in 2020; it was also the surname of more than 2 million overseas Chinese, 5.7 million Vietnamese (6%), and an estimated 1 million Koreans (The 2015 census of South Korea revealed it was the surname for 697,171 South Koreans, ranked 16th).
Huang is also the pinyin romanization of the very rare surname 皇.
Huang 黃,皇 used in Mandarin
Hwang 황,黃,皇 used in Korean
Huỳnh or Hoàng, used in Vietnamese. Huỳnh is the cognate adopted in Southern and most parts of Central Vietnam because of a naming taboo decree which banned the surname Hoàng, due to similarity between the surname and the name of Lord Nguyễn Hoàng.
Vong, anglicized from Hakka, used in Vietnamese
Ng, Ung, Ong, Wee, Oi, Ooi or Uy, used in Minnan and the Hokkien-speaking Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia
Ooi in Zhangzhou dialect and Penang
Ng, Eng used in Quanzhou dialect and Teochew
Wong, Hwong used in Cantonese, Wu and Fuzhou dialect
Oei or Oey, used among Teochews in Indonesia
OENG, EUNG, UENG, UNG, ING(អ៊ឹង) used in Cambodia
EUNG or UENG (แซ่อึ้ง) used in Thailand
Huang is an ancient surname. According to tradition, there are several different sources of Huang surname origin, for example as descendants of Bo Yi, Lu Zhong (陸終) or Tai Tai (臺駘). There were also at least three Huang Kingdoms 黃國 during Xia 夏朝, Shang 商朝 and Zhou 周朝 dynasties.
Official source
About this result
This page is automatically generated and may contain information that is not correct, complete, up-to-date, or relevant to your search query. The same applies to every other page on this website. Please make sure to verify the information with EPFL's official sources.