Wen (溫)
A Taiwanese surname.
溫 Wen
- Zhuyin
- ㄨㄣ
- Pinyin
- wēn
- Wade-Giles
- Wen
- Further spellings of 溫
- Wun
- Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô)
- Un
- Hakka (Sixian)
- vun²⁴
- Rank in Taiwan
- 55th most common surname, roughly 0.24% of the population (2023 Ministry of the Interior figures)
Also written 温. Both forms are counted together on this page.
What the character means
'Warm, mild'; 'gentle'; as a verb it means 'to warm up' and 'to review' (as in 溫習).
Where the surname comes from
Tradition traces it to descendants of Shu Yu of Tang (唐叔虞) who held the fief of Wen (溫) in present-day Henan and took the fief's name. Hall name (堂號): 平原堂. The MOI ranks the written form 温 separately; its count is included here.
Saying it 我姓溫 — wǒ xìng wēn (ㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄨㄣ), "my family name is 溫"
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).