Wu

Chinese family name (伍)

NameChinese family name family nameQ2652694

Also known as 伍 · Ng · Wǔ

Instance of: Chinese family name
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Wu is a Chinese surname. It is the 89th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem. It means ‘five’ in Chinese, an alternative form of the character 五. A 2013 study found that it was the 116th most common name, shared by 1,710,000 people or 0.130% of the population, with the province with the most being Guangdong.

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Script: Chinese characters
Native label: 伍 hanyu pinyin transliteration: Wǔ
Said to be the same as: Wu criterion used: pinyin
Ng criterion used: Yale romanization of Cantonese, Jyutping
Eng criterion used: Yue Chinese
Different from: 伍 criterion used: family name has to use a different item than disambiguation page
Wu criterion used: family name has to use a different item than disambiguation page
Language: Chinese

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Shanghai Library surname IDsm4b7h58adfrk54t

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