Posted on: General China Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/China/General?read=215 Surname: ------------------------- I do not know what your friends are talking about. I can think of two characters with the phonetic Wei which are surnames, but neither one means yellow. On the other hand, there is a fairly common surname with the meaning "yellow", called Huang in Mandarin.