Surname · Chinese
丞
“upper part; rise; raise”
丞 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese.
ChineseWritten in Chinese characters script.
Meaning & origin
What it means
丞 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tVŋ, meaning “upper part; rise; raise.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tVŋ (“upper part; rise; raise”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
丞’s family of names
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