Hung (洪)
A Taiwanese surname.
洪 Hung
- Zhuyin
- ㄏㄨㄥˊ
- Pinyin
- hóng
- Wade-Giles
- Hung
- Further spellings of 洪
- Hong
- Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô)
- Âng Âng is the colloquial (白讀) reading, while hông is the character's literary (文讀) reading.
- Hakka (Sixian)
- fung¹¹
- Rank in Taiwan
- 14th most common surname, roughly 1.51% of the population (2023 Ministry of the Interior figures)
What the character means
'Flood, great waters'; as an adjective it means 'vast, great'.
Where the surname comes from
One traditional account traces it to Gonggong (共工) and the state of Gong (共); descendants are said to have added the water radical to 共, producing 洪, in order to escape a feud. Hall name (堂號): 燉煌堂.
Saying it 我姓洪 — wǒ xìng hóng (ㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄏㄨㄥˊ), "my family name is 洪"
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).