Teng (surname)
Teng is a Chinese surname derived from State of Teng in the Western Zhou dynasty. It is the 73rd name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem. 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 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
Téng
- Teng Yin, Wu minister during the Three Kingdoms period
- Empress Teng, empress of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of Chin
- Teng Xiu, Wu minister during the Three Kingdoms period
- Teng Zongliang, Northern Song dynasty official
- Teng Daiyuan, Chinese military leader and senior leader of the Chinese Communist Party
- Teng Chie, Republic of China general and politician
- Teng Haiqing, Chinese military officer and politician
- Teng Weizao, Chinese economist and educator
- Dr. Rev. Philip Jinhui Teng, Christian theologian and author
- Teng Jinxian, Chinese film director
- Teng Wensheng, Chinese politician
- Teng Rujun, Chinese actor
- Chuu-Lian Terng, Taiwanese-American mathematician
- Shanghua Teng, Chinese-American computer scientist
- Teng Jin-guang, Chinese engineer and educator
- Teng Jiacai, Chinese politician
- Teng Biao, formerly Beijing-based human rights lawyer now in exile
- Teng Wei, Chinese football player
- Joyce Tang, Hong Kong actress
- Teng Haibin, Chinese gymnast
- Teng Bin, Chinese footballer
- Teng Zhiqiang, Chinese male slalom canoeist
- Teng Shangkun, Chinese footballer
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- Vienna Teng, born Cynthia Yih Shih, American singer-songwriter and pianist