Huang (黃)
A Taiwanese surname.
黃 Huang
- Zhuyin
- ㄏㄨㄤˊ
- Pinyin
- huáng
- Wade-Giles
- Huang
- Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô)
- N̂g N̂g is the colloquial (白讀) reading, while hông is the character's literary (文讀) reading.
- Hakka (Sixian)
- vong¹¹
- Rank in Taiwan
- 3rd most common surname, roughly 6.15% of the population (2023 Ministry of the Interior figures)
Also written 黄. Both forms are counted together on this page.
What the character means
'Yellow'; it is also a short form for the Yellow Emperor (黃帝).
Where the surname comes from
Tradition traces it to the state of Huang (黃) in present-day Henan, ruled by descendants of Boyi (伯益) of the Ying (嬴) clan and conquered by Chu in 648 BCE; its people then adopted Huang as their surname. Jiangxia (江夏) became the clan's best-known ancestral seat. Hall name (堂號): 江夏堂. The MOI ranks the written form 黄 separately; its count is included here.
Saying it 我姓黃 — wǒ xìng huáng (ㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄏㄨㄤˊ), "my family name is 黃"
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).