Long (Chinese surname) explained
| 龍 |
| Romanization: | Mandarin: Long, Lung
Cantonese: Lung |
| Pronunciation: | Mandarin: |
| Meaning: | Dragon |
Long[1] is the pinyin romanization of a few Chinese surnames. It includes Chinese: [[Wiktionary:龍|龍]] / Chinese: 龙, which means "dragon" in Chinese, ranking number 80 on the list of common Chinese surnames in 2006, up from 108 in 1990. Another name transcribed as Long is Chinese: 隆, which is very rare in contemporary China. In Hong Kong, these names are romanized as Lung. In Wade-Giles it is also romanized as Lung.
Notable people
- Long Ju, military general who served Xiang Yu during the Chu–Han Contention (died 203 BC)
- Long Qingquan, Chinese weightlifter
- Long Yan, (; born 1973) Chinese former synchronized swimmer who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Long Yun (; 1884–1962), governor and warlord of the Chinese province of Yunnan
- James Lung Wai-man (Chinese: 龍緯汶) is the chairman of the Southern Democratic Alliance in Hong Kong
- Lung Ying-tai (Chinese: 龍應台; born 1952), Taiwanese essayist and cultural critic
- Long Lehao (Chinese: 龙乐豪; born 1938), a Chinese aerospace engineer and scientist. fellow of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
- Manyuan Long, a Chinese American biologist.
- Long Yiming (Chinese: 龙以明; born 1948), a Chinese mathematician, professor at Nankai University, fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- Anders Ljungstedt (; 23 March 1759 – 10 November 1835) Swedish merchant and historian
- Long Daoyi (Chinese: 龙道一; born 2003), Chinese diver
Notes and References
- The approximate English pronunciation of the surname in Mandarin is .
