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谢 Xie — a top-40 surname
75.4 / 100 overall fit
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| Pinyin | Xie |
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| Strokes | 12 |
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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
An aristocratic surname of the Eastern Jin, famed for its poets and calligraphers.
Why it scores this way
Easy to say76
Mostly easy. The only friction is x, which English speakers usually turn into something close.
Recognised in China86
A very common surname (roughly the top 40 in China).
Easy to write60
12 strokes — a little practice and it flows.
People who carried this name
- Xie Lingyun — Jin-Song era poet (385–433), father of landscape poetry in China.
- Xie An — Eastern Jin statesman and general who secured the dynasty's survival at the Battle of Fei River, also a noted calligrapher and intellectual.
- Xie Daoyun — Eastern Jin poet and intellectual, famed for the simile 'willow catkins in the wind', celebrated as a talented woman in Chinese history.
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