Chinese surnames

屈

qū · Qu

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 124
Ancestral seat (junwang)
临海
Wikidata
Q6813700

In other languages

  • German Wat
  • English Qu
  • Spanish Wat
  • French Wat
  • Korean 취
  • Vietnamese Khuất

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Qu Yuan343 BCE – 278 BCE

    Chinese poet and politician (c.340–278 BC)

  • Qu Wu1898 – 1992

    Chinese politician

  • Qu Ding1023 – 1056

    Chinese painter

  • Qu Dajun1630 – 1696

    Qing dynasty scholar, 1630-1696

  • Qu Yingguang1883 – 1973

    Chinese revolutionary (1883-1973)

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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).