Chinese surnames

禹

yǔ · Yu

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 107
Ancestral seat (junwang)
陇西
Wikidata
Q16913323

In other languages

  • English Yu

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Yu Zhiding1647 – 1709

    Chinese painter (1647-1709)

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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).