Xiang
# Xiang

Xiang or Hsiang may refer to:

* Xiang (place), the site of Hong Xiuquan's destruction of a Chinese idol early in the Taiping Rebellion
* Xiang (surname), three unrelated surnames: Chinese: 項 and Chinese: 向 (both Xiàng) and Chinese: 相 (Xiāng)
* Xiang Chinese, a group of Chinese varieties spoken in Hunan
* Xiang Island (simplified Chinese: 响沙; traditional Chinese: 響沙; pinyin: Xiǎngshā), a former island in the Yangtze estuary now forming part of Chongming Island in Shanghai
* Xiang River, river in South China
* Hunan, abbreviated in Chinese as 湘 (Xiāng), a province of China
* Xiang, capital of the Shang dynasty during the reign of He Dan Jia

## People with the name

### Xiang

* Half-brother of legendary Chinese leader Emperor Shun
* Xiang of Xia (3rd millennium BC), fifth ruler of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty
* Duke Xiang of Song (died 637 BC), a ruler of Sòng in the Spring and Autumn period
* Duke Xiang of Jin (died 621 BC), a ruler of Jin
* King Xiang of Zhou (died 619 BC), king of the Zhou dynasty
* Liu Xiang (disambiguation)

### Hsiang

* Mina Hsiang (born 1981), administrator of the United States Digital Service
* Solomon Hsiang, scientist and economist
* Wu-Chung Hsiang (born 1935), Chinese-American mathematician
* Wu-Yi Hsiang [de] (born 1937), Chinese-American mathematician; see Kepler conjecture
