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任 Ren — a top-100 surname
80.0 / 100 overall fit
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| Pinyin | Ren |
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| Strokes | 6 |
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| Commonness | a top-100 surname |
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| Type | single-character |
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Where the surname comes from
A surname of the ancient feudal lords, widespread in northern China.
What the character means
Responsibility and reliability
Why it scores this way
Easy to say76
Mostly easy. The only friction is r, which English speakers usually turn into something close.
Recognised in China77
Common enough that most Chinese speakers recognise it (roughly the top 100).
Easy to write90
6 strokes — one of the simpler surnames to write and sign.
People who carried this name
- Ren Zhengfei — Founder of Huawei (b.1944), one of the world's leading tech entrepreneurs.
- Ren Bishi — Ren Bishi was a prominent Chinese communist revolutionary and one of the core leaders of the Chinese Communist Party in its early years.
- Ren Bonian — Ren Bonian was a celebrated painter of the late Qing Dynasty, renowned for his figure and flower-bird paintings.
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