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童 Tong — a rarer surname
66.8 / 100 overall fit
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| Pinyin | Tong |
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| Strokes | 12 |
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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 'child', from the ancient state of Tong.
What the character means
Purity and childlike simplicity
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 China41
Outside the top 100 — distinctive, but some people will ask you to repeat or write it.
Easy to write60
12 strokes — a little practice and it flows.
People who carried this name
- Tong Dizhou — Biologist (1902–1979), pioneer of Chinese experimental embryology.
- Tong Guan — Powerful eunuch general of the Northern Song Dynasty, commanded imperial armies and was later executed for corruption and abuse of power.
- Tong Shuye — Chinese historian and authority on ancient history, cartography and Spring and Autumn period studies, professor at Shandong University.
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