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卢 Lu — a top-100 surname
86.0 / 100 overall fit
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| Pinyin | Lu |
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| Strokes | 5 |
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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 from the ancient state of Lu, prominent in the Tang dynasty.
Why it scores this way
Easy to say96
Reads the way it looks for an English speaker — no sounds English doesn't have.
Recognised in China69
Common enough that most Chinese speakers recognise it (roughly the top 100).
Easy to write95
5 strokes — one of the simpler surnames to write and sign.
People who carried this name
- Lu Zhaolin — Tang dynasty poet (c.636–695), one of the 'Four Literary Friends'.
- Lu Zhi — Eastern Han statesman and scholar, served as general and taught Liu Bei. Upholder of Confucian values amid political turmoil.
- Lu Lun — Tang dynasty poet, one of the Ten Talents of Dali. Renowned for frontier poems depicting military life and desolate landscapes.
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