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- Native label
- 孟 hanyu pinyin transliteration: Mèng
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3 identifiers linking Meng across the web's reference databases
13 statements · 0% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
3 identifiers linking Meng across the web's reference databases
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Meng is a Chinese surname. Meng is a shi surname or clan name (氏), as opposed to the xing (姓) category of surname, ancestral name. Meng is of the type of surname which was a member of the list of names denoting seniority within a certain family: in ancient usage, the characters of meng (孟), zhong (仲), shu (叔) and ji (季) were used to denote the first, second, third and fourth eldest sons in a family. These were sometimes adopted as surnames. Of these, Meng is the best known, being the surname of the philosopher Mencius. It is the 94th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.