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邓 Deng — a top-40 surname
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| Pinyin | Deng |
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| Strokes | 5 |
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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 strong in Sichuan and Hunan, including the reformer Deng Xiaoping.
What the character means
A legacy of ancient heritage and steadfastness.
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 China83
A very common surname (roughly the top 40 in China).
Easy to write95
5 strokes — one of the simpler surnames to write and sign.
People who carried this name
- Deng Xiaoping — Chief architect of China's reform and opening-up (1904–1997), transformed modern China.
- Deng Shichang — Qing dynasty naval commander who sacrificed his life in the Battle of the Yellow Sea during the First Sino-Japanese War.
- Deng Jiaxian — Chinese nuclear physicist, a key architect of China's atomic and hydrogen bombs, known as the 'Two Bombs, One Satellite' pioneer.
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