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莫 Mo — a rarer surname
69.6 / 100 overall fit
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| Pinyin | Mo |
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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 'nothing', associated with the philosopher Mozi.
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 China45
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
- Mo Yan — Nobel Prize novelist (b.1955), author of Red Sorghum and Frog.
- Mo Xuanqing — Tang dynasty top scholar and poet, the first Zhuangyuan from Lingnan, known for his literary talent.
- Mo Youzhi — Qing dynasty Confucian scholar, calligrapher, and bibliophile, renowned for textual research and poetry.
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