Chinese surnames

卜

bo · Bu

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 92
Ancestral seat (junwang)
西河
Wikidata
Q4097588

In other languages

  • German Bu
  • English Bu
  • French Bu
  • Japanese 卜 (姓)
  • Russian Бу

Notable historical bearers

Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.

  • Bu Shang507 BCE – 420 BCE

    5th-century BC prominent disciple of Confucius

  • Bu Wancang1903 – 1973

    Chinese film director (1903-1974)

Find printed genealogies

The Shanghai Library holds one of the largest collections of Chinese family genealogies (jiapu). Its genealogy platform lists each genealogy's title, ancestral place, founding ancestor, hall name and holding library. Search there by surname and your family's ancestral place.

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Sources: the Hundred Family Surnames (public domain) with ancestral seats from the chinese-poetry dataset (MIT); spellings and people from Wikidata (CC0).