Chinese surnames

郁

yù · Yu

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 181
Ancestral seat (junwang)
黎阳
Wikidata
Q17164543

In other languages

  • English Yu

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Yu Dafu1896 – 1945

    Chinese writer (1896–1945)

  • Yu Feng1916 – 2007

    Chinese painter, cartoonist, and fashion designer (1916-2007)

  • Yu Baosi? – 1120

    Water Margin character

  • Matthew Yu Chengcai1917 – 2006

    Chinese bishop (1917-2006)

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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).