Tien (田)
A Taiwanese surname.
田 T'ien
- Zhuyin
- ㄊㄧㄢˊ
- Pinyin
- tián
- Wade-Giles
- T'ien
- Further spellings of 田
- Tien, Tian
- Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô)
- Tiân
- Hakka (Sixian)
- tien¹¹
- Rank in Taiwan
- 79th most common surname, roughly 0.15% of the population (2023 Ministry of the Interior figures)
What the character means
The word for 'field, farmland'.
Where the surname comes from
Tradition traces it to Chen Wan (陳完), a prince of the state of Chen who fled to Qi and received land there; his line took the name Tian, and his descendants went on to rule Qi. Hall name (堂號): 原門堂.
Saying it 我姓田 — wǒ xìng tián (ㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄊㄧㄢˊ), "my family name is 田"
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).