Pan (潘)
A Taiwanese surname.
潘 P'an
- Zhuyin
- ㄆㄢ
- Pinyin
- pān
- Wade-Giles
- P'an
- Further spellings of 潘
- Pan
- Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô)
- Phuann Phuann is the colloquial (白讀) reading, while phuan is the character's literary (文讀) reading.
- Hakka (Sixian)
- pan²⁴
- Rank in Taiwan
- 32nd most common surname, roughly 0.69% of the population (2023 Ministry of the Interior figures)
What the character means
'Water used to rinse rice'; it also means an eddy.
Where the surname comes from
One account traces it to a Zhou noble of the Ji (姬) clan enfeoffed at Pan (潘), whose descendants took the name of the fief; another traces it to the Pan family of the state of Chu. Hall name (堂號): 滎陽堂.
Saying it 我姓潘 — wǒ xìng pān (ㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄆㄢ), "my family name is 潘"
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).