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Leng (surname)

Chinese surname (冷)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ10895570 ↗
Source-derived summary

Leng is the Mandarin pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname written 冷 in Chinese character and Vietnamese surname written Lãnh. It is listed 377th in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames. As of 2008, it is the 246th most common surname in China, shared by 300,000 people.

Notable people

Leng Bao (冷苞; 3rd century AD), Han dynasty general

Yangqi Fanghui (杨岐方会; 992 – ca.

Editorial summary

“Leng (surname)” enters the record as chinese surname (冷). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Leng, surname and Chinese can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Leng, surname and Chinese.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Leng (surname)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Leng, surname and Chinese provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q10895570. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Leng (surname)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Leng (surname) primary sources, Leng (surname) archive and Leng research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Leng (surname)”?
  2. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
  3. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Leng (surname)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.