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胡 Hu — a top-40 surname
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| Pinyin | Hu |
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| Strokes | 9 |
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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 originating from the ancient state of Hu, now common in Anhui and Jiangxi.
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 China85
A very common surname (roughly the top 40 in China).
Easy to write75
9 strokes — a little practice and it flows.
People who carried this name
- Hu Shi — Modern scholar (1891–1962), leader of the New Culture Movement and pioneer of vernacular literature.
- Hu Xueyan — Qing dynasty merchant and philanthropist, known as the 'Red Top Merchant', founder of Hangzhou's Qingyutang pharmacy.
- Hu Feng — Chinese literary theorist and poet, persecuted in the 1950s Hu Feng counter-revolutionary clique case.
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