Wen (surname)
| Wen (文/闻/温/问) | |
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| Pronunciation | Wén/Wēn/Wèn (Pinyin) , Man6 (Jyutping) |
| Language(s) | Chinese |
| Origin | |
| Language(s) | Chinese |
| Meaning | "literature", "writing", "culture" (as a noun) |
| Other names | |
| Variant(s) |
Wen (Mandarin) Man, Mann (Cantonese) Boon (Hokkien) Vun (Hakka) Mun (Gan) Moon (Korean) Văn (Vietnamese) Bun (Japanese) |
Wen is the pinyin romanisation shared by several different Chinese surnames, including 文 (Wén), 温 (Wēn), 闻, and 问 (Wèn).
文 (Wén), meaning "literary" or "culture", is usually romanised as Man in Cantonese (most widely used by those from Hong Kong), and sometimes as Mann. In Min (including the Hokkien, Teochew, and Taiwanese dialects), the name is pronounced Boon. In the Hakka, the name can be romanized as Vun or Voon. The Gan dialect transcription for the name is Mun. Other romanizations include Văn in Vietnamese, Moon or Mun (Hangul: 문) in Korean and Bun (Hiragana: ぶん) in Japanese.
温 (Wēn), meaning "warm", is sometimes romanised as Wen or Vun in Taiwan, On in Vietnamese, Wan in Cantonese, or Wen/Won/Wan/Bong/Voon/Oon/woon in Malaysia.
闻 (Wén), meaning "fame" or "to listen", shares its origin with 文 (Wén) and usually romanised in a similar way. It may be romanised as Man in Cantonese, Wen, Boon, Vun, or Voon in Taiwan, Văn in Vietnamese.
Notable people named Wen
Historical figures
- Wen Zhong (Spring and Autumn) (fl. c. 496 BC), advisor in the state of Yue
- Wen Ping, military general of the Cao Wei state in the Three Kingdoms period
- Wen Chou (died 200), military general under Han dynasty warlord Yuan Shao
- Wen Qin (died 257), military general of the Cao Wei state in the Three Kingdoms period
- Wen Jiao (288–329), general and governor of the Jin dynasty
- Wen Zhenheng (1585–1645 AD), Ming dynasty painter, scholar
- Wen Yanbo (Tang dynasty) (575–637), official in early Tang dynasty
- Wen Tingyun (812–870), Tang dynasty poet
- Wen Tianxiang (1236–1283), chancellor of the Southern Song dynasty
- Wen Zhengming (1470–1559), Ming dynasty calligrapher
- Wen Yang (disambiguation), several people
Other people
- Wen Yiduo (1899–1946), poet and scholar
- Wen Jiabao (born 1942), Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 2013
- Wen Bixia (born 1967), Hong Kong actress
- Wen Junhui (stage name: Jun), Chinese member of the South Korean boyband Seventeen
Fiction
- Wen Zhong (Shang dynasty), fiction character from the ancient novel Fengshen Yanyi