Dongfang (surname)
Dongfang in Chinese or Dongbang in Korean is a compound surname in East Asia. Dongfang has two points of origin. One branch is said to be descended from the Fuxi clan, which originated in the east; the other is said to be descended from Dongfang Shuo, whose original family name was Zhang.[1]
 Dongfang in regular script | |
| Pronunciation | Tong-hong (Pe̍h-ōe-jī) |
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| Origin | |
| Language(s) | Chinese language |
| Word/name | Fu Xi clan Dongfang Shuo |
| Meaning | the east |
| Other names | |
| Variant form(s) | Dongfang (Mandarin) |
| See also | Zhang (surname) |
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| Traditional Chinese | 東方 | ||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 东方 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Vietnamese alphabet | Đông Phương | ||||||||||||||||
| Hán-Nôm | 東方 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Hangul | 동방 | ||||||||||||||||
| Hanja | 東方 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Kanji | 東方 | ||||||||||||||||
| Hiragana | とうほう ひがしかた | ||||||||||||||||
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Dongfang is the 119th surname in Hundred Family Surnames.
Notable people named Dongfang
- Dongfang Shuo, poet in Han Dynasty
- Dongfang Qiu, poet and historian in Tang Dynasty
- Dongfang Xian, scholar in Tang Dynasty
- Dongfang Bubai, fictional character from The Smiling, Proud Wanderer
References
- People's Daily. Overseas Ed. May 9th, 2001. Dongfang, a surname originated from Dongfang Shuo(始于东方朔的东方姓)
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