Teng (surname) explained

Teng
Language:	Chinese
Language origin:	China
Variant Forms:	Teguh, Temenggung, Tendean, Tengadi, Tengagung, Tenggara, Tenggeli, Tengker, Tengwijaya (Chinese-Indonesian)

Teng is a Chinese surname derived from State of Teng (Imperial clan descendants) in the Western Zhou Dynasty.^[1] It is the 73rd name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.^[2] It is T'eng in Wade–Giles, Tàhng in Cantonese and is usually Romanized as "Tang" in Hong Kong. It is Têng in Hokkien and Teochew. It is "ddàng"in Wenzhou.

"Teng" can also be used as an alternate spelling of the Chinese surname Deng (鄧/邓, Dèng) used especially in Taiwan based on the Wade-Giles transliteration of Mandarin Chinese. This spelling is used in many English language sources on China written before the widespread adoption of the pinyin transliteration system in the 1980s. For example, Deng Xiaoping was written "Teng Hsiao-p'ing."

Notable persons with the surname Teng

Persons surnamed Teng (滕) include:

• Teng Biao (滕彪; born 1973), formerly Beijing-based human rights lawyer now in exile
• Dr. Rev. Philip Jinhui Teng (滕近輝), Christian theologian and author
• Teng Haibin (滕海滨; born 1985), gymnast from Beijing, China
• Joyce Tang (滕麗名; born 1976), Hong Kong celebrity
• Teng Xiu (滕脩; died 288), Wu minister during the Three Kingdoms period
• Teng Yin (滕胤; died 256), Wu minister during the Three Kingdoms period
• Empress Teng (滕皇后; 258–284), empress of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of China
• Shanghua Teng (滕尚华, born 1964) Chinese-American computer scientist
• Teng Zhiqiang (滕志强; born 1991 in Gaocun, Mayang, Hunan), a Chinese male slalom canoeist
• Kai-Wei Teng (born 1998), Taiwanese baseball player

Unknown

• Tara Teng (born 1988), Canadian activist
• Vienna Teng, (stage name) born Cynthia Yih Shih (史逸欣; born 1978), American singer-songwriter and pianist

See also

• Tais Teng, pseudonym of a Dutch writer
• Chinese name
• Teng (mythology)

Notes and References

1. The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
2. K. S. Tom. [1989] (1989). Echoes from Old China: Life, Legends and Lore of the Middle Kingdom. University of Hawaii Press. .