Chinese surnames

邬

wū · Wu

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 78
Ancestral seat (junwang)
太原
Wikidata
Q18763273

In other languages

  • English Wu
  • Traditional Chinese 鄔

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Huitang Zuxin1024 – 1100

    Song dynasty person CBDB = 53445

  • Raymond Wu1936 – 2006

    Hong Kong politician and doctor (1936–2006)

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The Shanghai Library holds one of the largest collections of Chinese family genealogies (jiapu). Its genealogy platform lists each genealogy's title, ancestral place, founding ancestor, hall name and holding library. Search there by surname and your family's ancestral place.

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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).