Chinese surnames

虞

yú · Yu

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 161
Ancestral seat (junwang)
陈留
Wikidata
Q10798921

In other languages

  • German Yu
  • English Yu
  • Spanish Yu
  • French Yu
  • Vietnamese Ngu

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Consort Yu? – 202 BCE

    concubine of the warlord Xiang Yu

  • Yu Shinan558 – 638

    Chinese official and calligrapher (558-638)

  • Yu Fan164 – 233

    Eastern Wu official and scholar (164-233)

  • Yu Yunwen1110 – 1174

    Southern Song dynasty politician

  • Yu Shiji550 – 618

    Chinese chancellor

  • Yu Xi281 – 356

    4th century Chinese astronomer and writer

  • Yu Zhong250 – 280

    Official in the state of Eastern Wu (died 280)

  • Yu Ji1272 – 1348

    Yuan dynasty person CBDB = 10801 (1272–1348)

  • 虞授? – 279
  • Beautiful Lady Yu101 – 179

    Chinese Han dynasty concubine (died 179)

  • Yu Qiaqing1867 – 1945

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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).