Liang (surname) 梁姓

Liang (Romanization used in China, Chinese:梁) is a surname common in East Asia. Meaning "a beam", "a bridge", or "an elevation", or "a mast", the surname is often transliterated as Leung (in Hong Kong) or Leong (in Macau, Malaysia, and Singapore) according to its Cantonese pronunciation, or Neo / Nio / Niu (Hokkien, Teochew, Hainan). To Chinese Indonesians, it is known as Liang or Nio. It is also common in Korea, where it is pronounced Yang 양 or Ryang 량 . In Vietnam, it's pronounced as Lương.