Guān

Guan (traditional Chinese: 關; simplified Chinese: 关; pinyin: Guān) is a Chinese surname. Guan is 394th in the Hundred Family Surnames.

For other Chinese surnames romanized as "Guan", see Guan.
Guan (關/关)
Pronunciation
  • Guān (Mandarin)
  • Kwan (Hong Kong and overseas Chinese)
  • Kuan (Macao, Taiwan, and overseas Chinese)
  • Quan (Vietnamese and overseas Chinese)
  • Seki (Japanese)
Language(s)Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese
Origin
Language(s)Chinese
Word/nameChina
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In Hong Kong, the surname is romanised as Kwan in Cantonese. In Taiwan, the Wade–Giles spelling Kuan is used. In Macao, the surname is as Kuan due to the Portuguese influence. In addition the surname Cuan is also used in Mexico.

In many overseas Chinese communities, both spellings, Kuan and Kwan, as well as Quan, are common.

It is also a Vietnamese surname that uses the same character, romanised as Quan.

It is also a Japanese surname, Seki (Japanese: 関), that uses the same character.

The Vietnamese surname, Quan and the Japanese surname, Seki, was derived from the same Chinese character as the Chinese surname (The Japanese Kanji 関 is a Shinjitai of the Chinese character 關).

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