Tang

Clipping of English Tangut, French tangoute, or Classical Mongolian ᠲᠠᠩᠭᠤᠳ (tangɣud).

Tang

1. (international standards) ISO 15924 script code for Tangut.

• IPA^(key): /tæŋ/, /tɑːŋ/

Borrowed from Mandarin 唐 (Táng).

• T'ang, Tʻang (Wade–Giles)

• enPR: täng^[1]

Tang

1. The imperial dynasty of China which reigned from 618 to 907.
   • 2023 October 26, “Australia returns three smuggled historical artifacts to China”, in EFE‎^[2], sourced from Sydney, Australia (EFE), archived from the original on 26 October 2023, Culture, Latest news‎^[3]:

     The two sculptures, which were part of religious rites, belong to the Tang dynasty, which ruled between 618 and 907 AD and is considered a golden period of the Chinese civilization.

2. The Turkic dynasty of China which lasted from 923 to 936.
   • 2000, Notable Women of China: Shang Dynasty to the Early Twentieth Century‎^[4], M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235:

     Empress Liu (ca. 890-926 A.D.), whose birthplace was Chenan in Wei (now Chenan county, Hebei province), was the wife of Li Cunxu, who reigned as Emperor Zhuangzong, during the Tang dynasty.

3. A kingdom in China which existed between 937 and 975.
4. Any of a number of places in China.
   1. A county of Baoding, Hebei, China.
      • 1996, Jasper Becker, Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine‎^[5], The Free Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 328:

        A biography of Hu claims that Hu's attitudes changed in 1961, after he was sent to supervise agricultural policy changes in Tang county, Hebei province.

5. A Chinese surname from Mandarin.

• Tang Dynasty on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Later Tang Dynasty on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Southern Tang on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Mandarin 湯 / 汤 (Tāng).

• T'ang (Wade–Giles)

Tang (plural Tangs)

1. A Chinese surname from Mandarin.

Borrowed from Cantonese 滕 (tang4).

Tang (plural Tangs)

1. A Chinese surname from Cantonese.

Borrowed from Cantonese 鄧 / 邓 (dang6).

Tang (plural Tangs)

1. A Chinese surname from Cantonese.

Borrowed from Teochew 陳 / 陈 (dang5).

Tang (plural Tangs)

1. A Chinese surname from Teochew.

Borrowed from Hokkien 董 (táng).

Tang (plural Tangs)

1. A Chinese surname from Hokkien.

Borrowed from Persian تنگ (tang, “narrow, tight”).

Tang

1. Any of a number of places, including a village in Iran and a village in Afghanistan.

Borrowed from Dzongkha སྟང (stang).

Tang

1. A gewog of Bumthang District, Bhutan.

• Gant, Gnat, gnat

Tang

1. a surname

Of North Germanic origin, such as Danish tang or Swedish tång, from Old Norse þongull, þang, from Proto-Germanic *þanga, from Proto-Indo-European *tenk- (“to thicken, be solid”), related to Proto-Germanic *þinhaną.

• IPA^(key): /taŋ/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Rhymes: -aŋ

Tang m (strong, genitive Tangs, plural Tange)

1. seaweed

• Knorpeltang
• Seetang

• “Tang” in Duden online
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1068
• “Tang”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[6] (in German)

Borrowed from Cantonese 鄧／邓 (Dang⁴). Doublet of Teng.

Tang

1. a Chinese Indonesian surname from Cantonese.

Borrowed from Hokkien 董 (Táng).

Tang

1. a Chinese Indonesian surname from Hokkien.

From either Mandarin 唐 (táng) or Hokkien 董 (táng).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtaŋ/ [ˈt̪aŋ]
• Rhymes: -aŋ
• Syllabification: Tang

Tang (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜅ᜔)

1. a Chinese surname from Mandarin or Hokkien