桂

guì · Gui

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames: No. 306
Ancestral seat (junwang): 天水
Wikidata: Q4151740

In other languages

German Gui
English Gui
Spanish Gui
French Gui
Korean 구이
Russian Гуй
Vietnamese Quế

Notable historical bearers

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

Kuei Chih-hung1937 – 1999
Chinese film director
Gui E1478 – 1531
Ming dynasty person CBDB = 68285
Kye Ung-thae1925 – 2006
North Korean politician
Gui Yufang1930 – 2022
Chinese translator
Kwai Ming-Yang1909 – 1958
Cantonese opera performer

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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).