Teng

See also: Appendix:Variations of "teng"

English

Etymology 1

Romanization of Hokkien 鄧／邓 (Tēng). Doublet of Dinh.

Proper noun

Teng (plural Tengs)

1. A surname from Hokkien.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Teng is the 9473^rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3433 individuals. Teng is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (92.98%) individuals.

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 鄧 / 邓 (Dèng), Wade–Giles romanization: Têng⁴. Doublet of Dinh.

Alternative forms

• Deng

Proper noun

Teng (plural Tengs)

1. A surname from Mandarin.
   • 1982 April 4, “Scandal triggers friction”, in Free China Weekly [自由中國週報]‎^[3], volume XXII, number 13, Taipei, page 3, column 3:

     The source said Teng Hsiao-ping, when he visited Kwangchow early this year, ordered the arrest of the younger Wang to enforce the new purification campaign.

   • 1996, An-chia Wu, “The CCP's "Socialist Market Economy" Proposal”, in Bih-jaw Lin, James T. Myers, editors, Contemporary China in the Post-Cold War Era‎^[4], University of South Carolina Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29:

     In his speech at the mass rally mentioned above, Chiang Tse-min described Teng as a loyal comrade-in-arms of Mao Tse-tung and the most prominent successor and developer of Mao Tse-tung thought. He stressed the way that both Teng and Mao formulated their policies in line with the specific situation in China.

   • 2023 July 27, Huang Chia-lin, Jason Pan, “Court fines man for leaving ‘threatening’ note in parking furor”, in Taipei Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 July 2023, Taiwan News, page 2‎^[6]:

     Prosecutors said a man surnamed Teng (鄧) admitted to placing a note in the front windshield wiper of a car parked in Kaohsiung’s Linyuan District (林園) in October last year.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Teng is the 9473^rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3433 individuals. Teng is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (92.98%) individuals.

Etymology 3

Proper noun

Teng

1. Short for Teng County. (Tengzhou)
   • 1980, Hugh Thomas, transl., Comrade Editor: Letters to the People's Daily‎^[7], Hongkong: Joint Publishing Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 195:

     To top it off, the central branch in Jining loudly endorsed the experience of Teng County by declaring, at the region’s meeting of county bank managers and agricultural credit co-operative directors, “learn from Teng County; continue to mine the potential; go all out in savings accounts. Don’t be put off by this kind or that kind of interference!”

   • 1995 September, Jianing (陈家宁) Chen, 杨阳 [Yang Yang], “The God of Boats and the God of Carts”, in 中国神话世界 [The World of Chinese Myths]‎^[8], 1st edition, Beijing: Beijing Language and Culture University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 159:

     After his death, Xi Zhong was buried twenty-five li (about twelve kilometres) to the south of Xuecheng in Shandong Province, where people could find his tomb. And where he tested his cart, sixty li (thirty kilometres) from Teng County in Shandong Province, it is said that for years after his death, people could still see the wheel tracks.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 滕縣 / 滕县 (zh) (Téng Xiàn)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Etymology 4

From Mandarin 藤 (Téng).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tǔng

Proper noun

Teng

1. A county of Wuzhou, Guangxi, China.
   • 2022 March 23, Martin Quin Pollard, Thomas Suen, Tony Munroe, “At China plane crash site, relatives wait in grim vigil”, in Alexandra Hudson, editor, Reuters‎^[9], archived from the original on 23 March 2022, China:

     Dozens of family members congregated at the heavily-secured checkpoint leading to the site in Teng county in southern China's Guangxi region in pairs or small groups on Wednesday.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 藤 (zh) (Téng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• gent

Tagalog

Etymology

Romanization of Hokkien 鄧／邓 (Tēng).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈteŋ/ [ˈt̪ɛŋ]
• Rhymes: -eŋ
• Syllabification: Teng

Proper noun

Teng (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜅ᜔)

1. a Chinese Filipino surname from Hokkien

Related terms

• Tengco

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Teng is the 851st most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 10,891 individuals.