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蒲 Pu — a rarer surname
62.8 / 100 overall fit
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| Pinyin | Pu |
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| Strokes | 14 |
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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 'cattail', from the ancient state of Pu.
What the character means
Like cattail, resilient and pure.
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 China37
Outside the top 100 — distinctive, but some people will ask you to repeat or write it.
Easy to write50
14 strokes — more than most; it will take real practice to write smoothly.
People who carried this name
- Pu Songling — Qing dynasty writer (1640–1715), author of the Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio.
- Pu Hua — A renowned Shanghai School painter of the late Qing dynasty, celebrated for freehand orchids and bamboo.
- Pu Fuzhou — A distinguished modern Chinese physician, expert in traditional medicine, typhoid fever, and febrile diseases.
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