Mạc (
chữ Hán
( , ) are the Chinese characters that were used to write Literary Chinese in Vietnam, Literary Chinese (; ) and Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary in Vietnamese language, Vietnamese. They were officially used in Vietnam after the Red River Delta region ...
:
莫) is a Vietnamese surname. The name is transliterated as
Ma or
Mo in Chinese and
Mua in
Hmong language
Hmong or Mong ( ; Romanized Popular Alphabet, RPA: , Chữ Hmông Việt, CHV: ''Hmôngz'', Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong, Nyiakeng Puachue: , Pahawh: , ) is a dialect continuum of the West Hmongic branch of the Hmongic languages spoken by the Hmong p ...
. It is unrelated to the "Mac"
prefix to surnames derived from Gaelic languages.
Mac / Mc is an anglicised variation of the surname Mạc.
Notable people with the surname Mạc
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Mạc Đĩnh Chi, Vietnamese scholar and official of the
Trần dynasty
The Trần dynasty (Vietnamese language, Vietnamese: Nhà Trần, chữ Nôm: 茹陳; Vietnamese language, Vietnamese: triều Trần, chữ Hán: ikt:朝ikt:陳, 朝wikt:陳, 陳), officially Đại Việt (Chữ Hán: 大越), was a List ...
(1272–1346)
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Mạc Cửu
Cửu (, vi-hantu, 鄚玖, ; ''or'' ; 1655– July 18, 1735), also spelled Mok Kui, was an exile from China who founded the Principality of Hà Tiên and ruled as its first monarch. He played a role in the relations between Cambodia and the ...
, a Chinese adventurer who played a role in relations between
Cambodia
Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. It is bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, and Vietnam to the east, and has a coastline ...
and the
Nguyễn court
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Mạc dynasty
The Mạc dynasty (; Hán-Nôm: 茹 莫/ 朝 莫) (1527–1677), officially Đại Việt (Chữ Hán: 大越), was a Vietnamese dynasty which ruled over a unified Vietnam between 1527 and 1540, and northern Vietnam from 1540 until 1593. The M ...
, ruled the northern provinces of Vietnam from 1527 until 1592
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Mạc Đăng Dung
Mạc Đăng Dung (chữ Hán : 莫 登 庸; 23 November 1483 – 22 August 1541), also known by his temple name Mạc Thái Tổ (), was an emperor of Vietnam and the founder of the Mạc dynasty. Previously a captain of the imperial guard (Pra ...
, Vietnamese emperor and the founder of the Mạc dynasty (1483–1541)
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Mạc Đăng Doanh, Vietnamese emperor and the second emperor of the Mạc dynasty (?–1540)
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Mạc Hiến Tông, Vietnamese emperor and the third emperor of the Mạc dynasty (?–1546)
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Mạc Tuyên Tông, Vietnamese emperor and the fourth emperor of the Mạc dynasty (?–1561)
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Mạc Mậu Hợp, Vietnamese emperor and the fifth emperor of the Mạc dynasty (1560–1592)
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Vietnamese-language surnames
vi:Mạc (họ)