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Meng (Chinese: 孟; pinyin: Mèng; Wade–Giles: Meng) is a Chinese family name. Meng is a Shi surname or clan name (氏) as opposed to the xing (姓) category of surname. Meng is of the type of surname which was a member of the list of names denoting seniority within a certain family: in ancient usage the characters of meng (孟) zhong (仲) shu (叔) and ji (季) were used to denote the first second third and fourth eldest sons in a family. These were sometimes adopted as surnames.