Chinese surnames

荀

xún · Xun

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 201
Ancestral seat (junwang)
河内
Wikidata
Q6722351

In other languages

  • German Xun
  • English Xun
  • Spanish Xun
  • French Xun
  • Korean 쉰
  • Russian Сюнь (фамилия)
  • Vietnamese Tuân

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Xun Shuang128 – 190

    Chinese essayist, politician and writer (128–190

  • Xun Yue148 – 209

    Chinese official, historian and scholar (148–209)

  • Xun Huisheng1900 – 1968

    Peking opera singer (1900-1968)

  • Xun Guan303 – ?

    4th century Chinese Jin dynasty general

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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).