Chuang (莊)
A Taiwanese surname.
莊 Chuang
- Zhuyin
- ㄓㄨㄤ
- Pinyin
- zhuāng
- Wade-Giles
- Chuang
- Further spellings of 莊
- Juang, Jhuang, Zhuang
- Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô)
- Tsng Tsng is the colloquial (白讀) reading, while tsong is the character's literary (文讀) reading.
- Hakka (Sixian)
- zong²⁴
- Rank in Taiwan
- 24th most common surname, roughly 0.95% of the population (2023 Ministry of the Interior figures)
What the character means
'Village, farmstead'; 'manor'; as an adjective it means 'solemn, dignified'.
Where the surname comes from
Tradition traces it to King Zhuang of Chu (楚莊王), whose descendants took his posthumous name as their surname. In the Eastern Han some families changed it to 嚴 in order to avoid the emperor's personal name. Hall name (堂號): 天水堂.
Saying it 我姓莊 — wǒ xìng zhuāng (ㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄓㄨㄤ), "my family name is 莊"
Sources: rank and share, 內政部 全國姓名統計分析 (Ministry of the Interior, National Name Statistics), data as of 2023-06-30. Taiwanese Hokkien readings, 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi), 百家姓 appendix. Hakka, 教育部臺灣客語辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka), 百家姓表, Sixian (四縣腔).