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辜 Gu — a rarer surname
64.7 / 100 overall fit
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| Pinyin | Gu |
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| Strokes | 12 |
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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 'guilt', associated with the scholar Gu Hongming.
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 China35
Outside the top 100 — distinctive, but some people will ask you to repeat or write it.
Easy to write60
12 strokes — a little practice and it flows.
People who carried this name
- Gu Hongming — Scholar (1857–1928), translator of Chinese classics into English and German.
- Koo Chen-fu — Taiwanese businessman and diplomat, chairman of Straits Exchange Foundation, key figure in cross-strait talks in the 1990s.
- Koo Kuan-min — Taiwanese political activist and advocate for Taiwan independence, long-time figure in pro-independence movement.
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