Chinese surnames

宇文

yǔ wén · Yuwen

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 432
Ancestral seat (junwang)
赵郡
Wikidata
Q10946183

In other languages

  • German Yuwen
  • English Yuwen
  • Spanish Yuwen
  • French Yuwen
  • Korean 위원
  • Russian Юйвэнь
  • Vietnamese Vũ Văn

Notable historical bearers

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

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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).