Chinese surnames

步

bù · Bu

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 346
Ancestral seat (junwang)
平阳
Wikidata
Q11123724

In other languages

  • German Bu
  • English Bu
  • French Bu

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Bu Zhi150 – 247

    Eastern Wu official and general (died 247)

  • Bu Lianshi150 – 238

    Eastern Wu noble lady (died 238)

  • Bu Chan250 – 272

    Eastern Wu general

  • 步玑? – 272

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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).