Chinese surnames

淳于

chún yú · Chúnyú

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 423
Ancestral seat (junwang)
河内
Wikidata
Q11153552

In other languages

  • English Chúnyú

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Jianzhen688 – 763

    Chinese monk who helped to propagate Buddhism in Japan

  • Chunyu Qiong200 – 200

    Chinese general under warlord Yuan Shao (died 200)

  • Chunyu Yi205 BCE – 150 BCE

    Chinese physician (about 216-154 BC)

  • Chunyu Dao? – 208

    fictional character in Romance of the Three Kingdoms

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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).