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袁 Yuan — a top-40 surname
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| Pinyin | Yuan |
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| Strokes | 10 |
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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 traced to ancient nobility, with prominent figures in the modern era.
What the character means
Profound and far-reaching
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 China82
A very common surname (roughly the top 40 in China).
Easy to write70
10 strokes — a little practice and it flows.
People who carried this name
- Yuan Shikai — Late Qing military leader and first President of the Republic of China (1859–1916).
- Yuan Longping — Chinese agronomist known as the father of hybrid rice, whose work helped feed millions and won the 2004 World Food Prize.
- Yuan Mei — Qing dynasty poet, essayist, and gastronome, famous for his culinary manual Suiyuan Shidan and his advocacy of personal expression.
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