Three Kingdoms Officer Names: Five Wei Generals
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Five Generals of Wei (五子良將): The Five Generals of Wei refers to the “top five generals of Wei” and includes Xu Huang, Yu Jin, Yue Jin, Zhang He and Zhang Liao. This saying may have originated from Chen Shou’s Sanguozhi, where he grouped them together and said, “Of all the generals of the period, these five can be considered the best of them all.”
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Name (family, given), style, Wade-Giles, tones, traditional and simplified Chinese.
| Officer Name (Wade-Giles) |
Traditional, Simplified |
Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese |
|---|---|---|
| Xu Huang (Gongming) | 徐晃 (公明) | |
| Hsü Huang (Kung-ming) | 徐晃 (公明) | |
| Served Cao Cao. Famous for breaking the siege of Fancheng against Guan Yu. | ||
| Yu Jin (Wenze) | 于禁 (文則) | |
| Yü Chin (Wên-tsê) | 于禁 (文则) | |
| Served Cao Cao. Surrendered to Guan Yu. Shamed by Cao Pi into suicide. | ||
| Yue Jin (Wenqian) | 樂進 (文謙) | |
| Yüeh Chin (Wên-ch‘ien) | 乐进 (文谦) | |
| Served Cao Cao from the beginning. Shot from his horse by Gan Ning. Small-framed. | ||
Notes: His name is incorrectly translated as Yue Jing in some Brewitt-Taylor editions. Yue Jin is also sometimes translated as Le Jin (and in Destiny of an Emperor they somehow botched it up further to Le Xin). |
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| Zhang He (Junyi) | 張郃 (儁乂) | |
| Chang Ho (Chün-i) | 张郃 (儁乂) | |
| Originally under Yuan Shao, defected to Wei. Died battling Zhuge Liang. | ||
Notes: Apparently, Zhang He is misspelled ‘Zhang Yue’ in Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI. |
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| Zhang Liao (Wenyuan) | 張遼 (文遠) | |
| Chang Liao (Wên-yüan) | 张辽 (文远) | |
| Served in Wei after Cao Cao defeated Lü Bu. Close friend of Guan Yu. | ||
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