Meng (surname)

Meng (Chinese: 孟; pinyin: Mèng; Wade–Giles: Meng) is a Chinese surname. Meng is a shi surname or clan name (氏), as opposed to the xing (姓) category of surname, ancestral name. Meng is of the type of surname which was a member of the list of names denoting seniority within a certain family: in ancient usage, the characters of meng (孟), zhong (仲), shu (叔) and ji (季) were used to denote the first, second, third and fourth eldest sons in a family. These were sometimes adopted as surnames. Of these, Meng is the best known, being the surname of the philosopher Mencius. It is the 94th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.[1]

Mèng
Origin
MeaningFirst-born

People with the surname Meng
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References
  1. K. S. Tom. [1989] (1989). Echoes from Old China: Life, Legends and Lore of the Middle Kingdom. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-1285-9.

See also
  • Niels Hanssøn Meng (1604–1676), Norwegian timber trader, property owner and civil leader
  • Heini Meng (born 1902, date of death unknown), Swiss ice hockey player
  • fictional characters in Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels in Chinese literature:
  • Meng Kang
  • Tong Meng
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