Weng (翁)
A Taiwanese surname.
翁 Weng
- Zhuyin
- ㄨㄥ
- Pinyin
- wēng
- Wade-Giles
- Weng
- Further spellings of 翁
- Wong
- Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô)
- Ang MOE's name-reading tool gives Ong as the more common reading. Ang is the colloquial (白讀) reading, while ong is the character's literary (文讀) reading.
- Hakka (Sixian)
- vung²⁴
- Rank in Taiwan
- 47th most common surname, roughly 0.4% of the population (2023 Ministry of the Interior figures)
What the character means
'Old man'; in classical texts it means 'father' or 'father-in-law' (as in 翁婿).
Where the surname comes from
One traditional account traces it to a son of King Zhao of Zhou enfeoffed at Weng (翁), whose descendants took the name of the fief. Hall name (堂號): 鹽官堂.
Saying it 我姓翁 — wǒ xìng wēng (ㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄨㄥ), "my family name is 翁"
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).