Släkthistoria för Hwang
Hwang Vad efternamn betyder
Korean: written 황 in Chinese characters 黃 meaning ‘yellow’. This is the only Chinese character for the surname Hwang. Some sources indicate that there are 163 Hwang clans but only eleven can be positively documented. The founding ancestor of the Hwang clans was named Hwang Nak (黃洛). He was a Chinese emissary who had been sent on a mission to Vietnam. He encountered heavy seas however and put ashore in Uljin county Korea (part of Kyŏngsang North province) to wait out the storm. Eventually he went to Korea and settled there in AD 2 Each of Hwang Nak's three sons were founding ancestors of their own clans and some of their descendants founded additional Hwang clans. Compare Whang. Chinese: variant of Huang.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
