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吕 Lyu — a top-40 surname
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| Pinyin | Lyu |
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| Strokes | 6 |
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| Commonness | a top-40 surname |
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| Type | single-character |
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Where the surname comes from
A surname of the legendary statesman Lü Shang (Jiang Ziya), strong in Shandong.
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 China82
A very common surname (roughly the top 40 in China).
Easy to write90
6 strokes — one of the simpler surnames to write and sign.
People who carried this name
- Lü Shang — Zhou dynasty founding strategist (c.11th century BC), known as Jiang Ziya, the 'Great Duke who Hopes for the Fish'.
- Lü Buwei — Chancellor of Qin dynasty, patron of the Lüshi Chunqiu encyclopedia.
- Lü Bu — Eastern Han warlord famed for martial prowess, featured in Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
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