Ông Tơ Bà Nguyệt
Ong is a Hokkien language, Hokkien romanization of Chinese, romanization of several Chinese surnames: (''Wang (surname), Wáng'' in Hanyu Pinyin), (also ''Wang (surname), Wāng''), (traditional characters, traditional) or (simplified characters, simplified; ''Huang (surname), Huáng''); and (Weng (surname), Weng). Ong or Onge is also a surname of English origin, with earliest known records found in Western Suffolk taxation records from c. 1280 AD. Ong (or Онгь in Russian language-based records) is also an Estonian surname, possibly derived from ''õng'', meaning "fishing rod/hook". Ong has also been used to romanize the Taishanese pronunciation of (more commonly romanized as Deng (Chinese surname), Deng or Teng), as in the case of Betty Ong. Romanization Under the Pe̍h-ōe-jī romanization system, 王 but not the other names includes a circumflex over its vowel: Ông. However, this is often omitted in practice. Distribution In Singapore, Ong is the list of common Chine ...
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Hokkien Language
The Hokkien () variety of Chinese is a Southern Min language native to and originating from the Minnan region, where it is widely spoken in the south-eastern part of Fujian in southeastern mainland China. It is one of the national languages in Taiwan, and it is also widely spoken within the Chinese diaspora in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and other parts of Southeast Asia; and by other overseas Chinese beyond Asia and all over the world. The Hokkien 'dialects' are not all mutually intelligible, but they are held together by ethnolinguistic identity. Taiwanese Hokkien is, however, mutually intelligible with the 2 to 3 million speakers in Xiamen and Singapore. In Southeast Asia, Hokkien historically served as the ''lingua franca'' amongst overseas Chinese communities of all dialects and subgroups, and it remains today as the most spoken variety of Chinese in the region, including in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and some parts of Indochina (particu ...
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