Wen (surname 闻)
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Wén (simplified Chinese: 闻; traditional Chinese: 聞) is a Chinese surname. It is related to the name Wenren (Wenjen).
闻 (Wén), meaning "fame" or "to listen", shares its origin with 文 (Wén) and usually romanised in a similar way. It may be romanised as Man in Cantonese, Wen, Boon, Vun, or Voon in Taiwan, Văn in Vietnamese.
286th most common name, shared by 210,700 people or 0.016% of the population, the province with the most being Anhui.[1]
Notable people[edit]
- Wen Yiduo, politician and nationalist poet assassinated by the KMT
- Wen Yumei (闻玉梅; born 1934) a Chinese virologist and microbiologist and the current director of the Institute of Pathogenic Microorganisms, Fudan University.
- Wen Zhong (Investiture of the Gods)
References[edit]
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