Chinese surnames

喻

yù · Yu

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 36
Ancestral seat (junwang)
江夏
Wikidata
Q10757709

In other languages

  • German Yu
  • English Yu
  • French Yu
  • Japanese 喩
  • Korean 위
  • Vietnamese Dụ

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Wang Ying1913 – 1974

    Chinese actress (1913–1974)

  • Yu Luoke1942 – 1970

    Chinese politician

  • Yu Peilun1887 – 1911

    Qing Dynasty revolutionary

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).