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梅 Mei — a rarer surname
68.9 / 100 overall fit
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| Pinyin | Mei |
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| Strokes | 11 |
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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 'plum blossom', symbol of resilience in winter.
What the character means
Symbol of resilience and purity in winter
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 China43
Outside the top 100 — distinctive, but some people will ask you to repeat or write it.
Easy to write65
11 strokes — a little practice and it flows.
People who carried this name
- Mei Lanfang — Peking opera master (1894–1961), greatest dan actor of the 20th century.
- Mei Yiqi — Chinese educator, long-time president of Tsinghua University, known for his motto 'sprout, flower, and fruit' in nurturing talent.
- Mei Yaochen — Northern Song dynasty poet, a pioneer of realistic poetry, praised by Ouyang Xiu as 'the originator of poetic style'.
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