Du (surname)
Du (Chinese: 杜; pinyin: Dù; Wade–Giles: Tu4) is a Chinese surname. The name is spelled Tu in Taiwan, in Hong Kong it is translated as To, in Macao it is spelled as Tou, the pronunciation of 杜 in Cantonese. The Vietnamese equivalent of the surname is Đỗ. However, when diacritics are dropped, it can also be from the Vietnamese surnames Dư 余 or Dũ 俞 (Chinese equivalent is both Yu). It is the 129th surname in Hundred Family Surnames and is the 42nd most common surname in Mainland China as of 2020.
The Du surname in regular script | |
| Pronunciation | Dù (Pinyin) Tō͘ (Pe̍h-ōe-jī) |
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| Language(s) | Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean |
| Origin | |
| Language(s) | Old Chinese |
| Derivation | Qi (surname) |
| Meaning | birchleaf pear |
| Other names | |
| Variant form(s) | Du, Tu (Mandarin) To, Tou (Cantonese) Toh, Taw (Hokkien) Đỗ (Vietnamese) |
| Derivative(s) | Đỗ |
| See also | Fan |
Du surname in regular script | |
| Pronunciation | Dū (Pinyin) To͘ (Pe̍h-ōe-jī) |
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| Language(s) | Chinese, Vietnamese |
| Origin | |
| Language(s) | Old Chinese |
| Meaning | capital |
| Other names | |
| Variant form(s) | Du, Tu (Mandarin) Toh, Taw (Hokkien) |
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