Wen (surname)
| Wen (文/闻/温/问) | |
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| Pronunciation | Wén/Wēn/Wèn (Pinyin) , Man6 (Jyutping) |
| Language(s) | Chinese |
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| Language(s) | Chinese |
| Meaning | "literature", "language" (written), "culture" (as a noun) |
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Wen (Mandarin) Man, Mann (Cantonese) Boon (Hokkien) Vun (Hakka) Mun (Gan) Moon (Korean) Văn (Vietnamese) Bun (Japanese) |
Wen (/wən/) is the pinyin romanisation shared by several different Chinese surnames, including 文 (Wén), 温 (Wēn), 闻 (Wén), and 问 (Wèn).
文 (Wén) 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 (Kanji: ぶん) in Japanese.
温 (Wēn) is a Chinese surname which means mild and warm in Chinese. This word is often used to describe the glories of jade (especially white jade) in Chinese traditional culture, and Chinese people like to compare well-educated ladies and gentleman to white jade, which is very rare in China.
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 Cao Wei under Cao Cao (155–223)
- Wen Chou (died 200), military general under Warlord Yuan Shao in the Late Han Dynasty
- Wen Qin (died 257), military general of Cao Wei
- Wen Hu (died 290), military general of Cao Wei
- Wen Jiao (288–329), general and governor of the Jin Dynasty
- Wen Zhenheng (1585–1645 AD), Ming Dynasty painter, scholar
- Wen Yanbo (Tang chancellor) (575–637), official in early Tang Dynasty
- Wen Tingyun (812–870), poet in Tang dynasty
- Wen Tianxiang (1236–1283), chancellor of Southern Song Dynasty
- Wen Zhengming (1470–1559), calligrapher in Ming Dynasty
- 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 beginning in 2003
- 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