王实甫 | Wáng Shí fǔ | Wang Shifu (1295-1307), author of Romance of the West Chamber 西厢记 |
王岱舆 | Wáng Dài yú | Wang Daiyu (1584-1670), Hui Islamic scholar of the Ming-Qing transition |
王希孟 | Wáng Xī mèng | Wang Ximeng (c. 1096-c. 1119), Song artist, probably teenage prodigy who died young, painter of Thousand Miles of Landscape 千里江山 |
王平 | Wáng Píng | Wang Ping |
王府井 | Wáng fǔ jǐng | Wangfujing neighborhood of central Beijing, famous for shopping |
王座 | wáng zuò | throne |
王建民 | Wáng Jiàn mín | Chien-Ming Wang (1980-), Taiwanese starting pitcher for the Washington Nationals in Major League Baseball |
王心凌 | Wáng Xīn líng | stage name of Cyndi Wang; see 王君如 |
王书文 | Wáng Shū wén | Wang Shuwen (personal name) |
王朔 | Wáng Shuò | Wang Shuo (1958-), |
王楠 | Wáng Nán | Wang Nan |
王钦若 | Wáng Qīn ruò | Wang Qinruo (962-1025), Northern Song dynasty official |
王母 | wáng mǔ | queen mother |
王母娘娘 | Wáng mǔ niáng niáng | another name for Xi Wangmu 西王母, Queen Mother of the West |
王永民 | Wáng Yǒng mín | Wang Yongmin (1943-), inventor of the five stroke input method 五笔输入法 |
王治郅 | Wáng Zhì zhì | Wang Zhizhi (Chinese basketball player) |
王法 | wáng fǎ | the law; the law of the land; the law of a state (in former times); criterion |
王洪文 | Wáng Hóng wén | Wang Hongwen (1935-1992), one of the Gang of Four |
王牌 | wáng pái | trump card |
王益 | Wáng yì | Wangyi district of Tóngchuān city 铜川市, Shǎnxī |
王益区 | Wáng yì qū | Wangyi district of Tóngchuān city 铜川市, Shǎnxī |
王码 | Wáng mǎ | Wang code, same as 五笔字型, five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983 |
王祖贤 | wáng zǔ xián | Joey Wong (actress) |
王禹偁 | Wáng Yǔ chēng | Wang Yucheng (954-1001) Song dynasty literary figure |
王颖 | Wáng Yǐng | Wayne Wang (1949-), Chinese US film director |
王义夫 | Wáng Yì fū | Wang Yifu |
王羲之 | Wáng Xī zhī | Wang Xizhi (303-361), famous calligrapher of Eastern Jin, known as the sage of calligraphy 书圣 |
王老五 | wáng lǎo wǔ | lit. fifth child of the Wangs; bachelor |
王老吉 | Wáng lǎo jí | Wanglaoji (beverage brand) |
王肃 | Wáng Sù | Wang Su (c. 195-256), classical scholar of Cao Wei dynasty, believed to have forged several classical texts |
王英 | Wáng Yīng | Wang Ying (character in the "Water Margin") |
王菲 | Wáng Fēi | Faye Wong (1969-), Hong Kong pop star and actress |
王著 | Wáng Zhù | Wang Zhu (-c. 990), Song calligrapher and writer |
王军霞 | Wáng Jūn xiá | Wang Junxia (1973-), Chinese long-distance runner |
王选 | Wáng Xuǎn | Wang Xuan |
王震 | Wáng Zhèn | Wang Zhen |
王顾左右而言他 | wáng gù zuǒ yòu ér yán tā | the king looked left and right and then talked of other things; to digress from the topic of discussion (idiom) |