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唐 Tang — a top-40 surname
85.3 / 100 overall fit
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| Pinyin | Tang |
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| Strokes | 10 |
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| Commonness | a top-40 surname |
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| Type | single-character |
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| Theme | Dynasty heritage |
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Where the surname comes from
Imperial surname of the glorious Tang dynasty, one of China's golden ages.
What the character means
grand, magnificent, noble
Theme basis：唐 = the Tang dynasty
Why it scores this way
Easy to say96
Reads the way it looks for an English speaker — no sounds English doesn't have.
Recognised in China85
A very common surname (roughly the top 40 in China).
Easy to write70
10 strokes — a little practice and it flows.
People who carried this name
- Tang Bohu — Ming painter and poet (1470–1524), one of the 'Four Masters of Wu'.
- Tang Wan — Tang Wan was a Southern Song dynasty poet, remembered for her poignant ci poems and tragic love story with Lu You.
- Tang Caichang — Tang Caichang was a late-Qing reformer and revolutionary, led the Independence Army uprising, and was executed in 1900.
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