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Wang

proper nounproper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //wæŋ//
  • //wɔŋ//

A surname from Chinese.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Chinese.

  2. 2

    A surname from Korean [in turn from Chinese].

Etymology

From various romanizations of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 王 (Wáng) or 汪 (Wāng). Doublet of Wong, Heng, Ong, and Vuong. As a Korean surname, from 왕 (wang), from the above.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Danish, variant of Vang.

Etymology

As a Danish surname, from Vang. As a German and Dutch surname, from wang (“cheek”) and obsolete derivatives of Proto-Germanic *wangaz (“field, meadow”). As a Jewish surname, from the German sense, and also a nickname for someone from Hungary (compare Russian Венгрия (Vengrija)). As a North Germanic surname, spelling variant of Vang.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A Meitei surname from Manipuri, variant of Wangjam, Wangkheimayum, Wangkheimayum, or Wangmayum.

Etymology

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯋꯥꯡ (wāng).

Forms

plural
Wangs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).