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丁 Ding — a top-100 surname
88.4 / 100 overall fit
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| Pinyin | Ding |
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| Strokes | 2 |
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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 Ding, widespread in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
What the character means
robust and vital
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 China72
Common enough that most Chinese speakers recognise it (roughly the top 100).
Easy to write100
2 strokes — one of the simpler surnames to write and sign.
People who carried this name
- Ding Zhaozhong — Nobel Prize physicist (b.1936), co-discoverer of the J/psi particle.
- Ding Ling — Chinese left-wing writer, author of 'Miss Sophia's Diary' and 'The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River'.
- Ding Baozhen — Qing dynasty official, executed eunuch An Dehai, promoted modernization as governor of Shandong.
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