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丘 Qiu — a rarer surname
65.7 / 100 overall fit
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| Pinyin | Qiu |
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| Strokes | 5 |
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| Commonness | outside the top 100 |
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| Type | single-character |
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Where the surname comes from
A surname meaning 'hill', associated with the Taoist master Qiu Chuji.
What the character means
Natural elevation and stability
Why it scores this way
Easy to say71
Mostly easy. The only friction is q, iu, which English speakers usually turn into something close.
Recognised in China39
Outside the top 100 — distinctive, but some people will ask you to repeat or write it.
Easy to write95
5 strokes — one of the simpler surnames to write and sign.
People who carried this name
- Qiu Chuji — Taoist master (1148–1227), founder of the Longmen sect.
- Qiu Fengjia — Taiwanese poet and educator, leader of the anti-Japanese resistance in Taiwan in 1895.
- Shing-Tung Yau — Fields Medalist and professor at Harvard University, renowned for contributions to differential geometry.
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