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公孙 Gongsun — a rarer surname
71.3 / 100 overall fit
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| Pinyin | Gongsun |
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| Strokes | 10 |
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| Commonness | outside the top 100 |
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| Type | compound surname |
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Where the surname comes from
A surname meaning 'duke's grandson', from the royal houses of ancient states.
What the character means
justice and impartiality
Why it scores this way
Easy to say82
Reads the way it looks for an English speaker — no sounds English doesn't have.
Recognised in China45
Outside the top 100 — distinctive, but some people will ask you to repeat or write it.
Easy to write92
10 strokes — one of the simpler surnames to write and sign.
People who carried this name
- Gongsun Yang — Legalist reformer (390–338 BC), better known as Shang Yang, who transformed the Qin state.
- Gongsun Long — Philosopher of the School of Names in the Warring States period, famous for the paradox 'A white horse is not a horse.'
- Gongsun Zan — Warlord of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, known for his rivalry with Yuan Shao in northern China.
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