Given name & surname
Zhong
“an honorable woman”
Zhong is used as a given name and a surname. One Chinese interpretation is “an honorable woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Chinese interpretation is “an honorable woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Chinese.
Zhong’s family of names
In English usage, Zhong as a surname has a related form in CHUNG.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 15
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Makotoequivalent
- Chongequivalent
- Tongequivalent
- Jungequivalent
- 眾equivalent
- 钟equivalent
- 仲equivalent
- 終equivalent
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People named Zhong
- Huang ZhongChinese general serving warlord Liu Bei (died 220)148–220
- Deng ZhongCao Wei general230–264
- Yang Zhongfather of Chinese emperor Wen of Sui507–568
- Lü ZhongChinese actressborn 1940
- Yu ZhongOfficial in the state of Eastern Wu (died 280)250–280
Characters named Zhong: Bao Zhong (fictional human in "The Romance of Three Kingdoms"), Li Zhong (Water Margin character).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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