Chinese surnames

惠

huì · Hui

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 203
Ancestral seat (junwang)
扶风
Wikidata
Q11073356

In other languages

  • English Hui
  • French Hui
  • Japanese 恵
  • Korean 후이
  • Vietnamese Huệ

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Hui Shi370 BCE – 310 BCE

    4th century BCE Chinese philosopher of the School of Names

  • Austin Wai1957 – 2012

    Hong Kong actor (1957-2012)

  • Hui Dong1697 – 1758

    Qing dynasty scholar, 1697-1758

Find printed genealogies

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).