Chung (鍾)
A Taiwanese surname.
鍾 Chung
- Zhuyin
- ㄓㄨㄥ
- Pinyin
- zhōng
- Wade-Giles
- Chung
- Further spellings of 鍾
- Jung, Jhong, Zhong
- Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô)
- Tsing Tsing is the colloquial (白讀) reading, while tsiong is the character's literary (文讀) reading.
- Hakka (Sixian)
- zung²⁴
- Rank in Taiwan
- 30th most common surname, roughly 0.78% of the population (2023 Ministry of the Interior figures)
Also written 鐘. Both forms are counted together on this page.
What the character means
A wine vessel; an ancient unit of capacity; it is also used for 鐘 'bell'. As a verb it means 'to gather, concentrate' (as in 鍾愛).
Where the surname comes from
Tradition traces it to the fief of Zhongli (鍾離) in present-day Anhui, held by a branch of the ruling house of Song; the compound surname Zhongli and the single surname Zhong are said to share this origin. Hall name (堂號): 頴川堂. The MOI ranks the written form 鐘 separately; its count is included here.
Saying it 我姓鍾 — wǒ xìng zhōng (ㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄓㄨㄥ), "my family name is 鍾"
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).