Du (surname)

Du
The Du surname in regular script
PronunciationDù (Pinyin)
Dou6 (Jyutping)
Tō͘ (Pe̍h-ōe-jī)
LanguageChinese, Vietnamese, Korean
Origin
LanguageOld Chinese
DerivationQi (surname)
Meaningbirchleaf pear
Other names
Variant formsDu, Tu (Mandarin)
To, Tou (Cantonese)
Toh, Taw (Hokkien)
Đỗ (Vietnamese)
DerivativeĐỗ
See alsoFan
Du
Du surname in regular script
PronunciationDū (Pinyin)
To͘ (Pe̍h-ōe-jī)
LanguageChinese, Vietnamese
Origin
LanguageOld Chinese
Meaningcapital
Other names
Variant formsDu, Tu (Mandarin)
Toh, Taw (Hokkien)

Du (Chinese: 杜; pinyin: Dù; Wade–Giles: Tu4) is a Chinese surname. The name is spelled Tu in Taiwan. In Hong Kong it is spelled as To and in Macao as Tou, based on the pronunciation of 杜 in Cantonese. In Singapore and Malaysia, it is spelled as Toh, based on the pronunciation of 杜 in Hokkien. 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 (for both, the Chinese equivalent is Yu). It is the 129th surname in Hundred Family Surnames and is the 42nd most common surname in Mainland China as of 2020.[1]

Origin and Branches of Du (杜)

The ancestors of the Du family are known as the Tangdu. The Tangdu resided southeast of Xi'an in Shaanxi province. The Fan (范) and Du clans share a common ancestor. Some members of the Du (杜) family are the Tuoba (拓跋) family of Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei. "Dugu" is the surname of Xianbei.

Meanings of Du (杜)

  • The Chinese name of Pyrus betulifolia, a deciduous tree of the genus pear in the rosaceae.
  • A verb: to stop; to prevent; to restrict[2]

People with this name

Du

  • Du Fu (杜甫) (712–770), Tang dynasty poet, considered one of China's greatest
  • Du Fuwei (杜伏威) (d. 624), Sui dynasty military leader
  • Du Hong (杜洪) (d. 905), late Tang dynasty warlord
  • Du Ji (杜畿) (d. 224), Cao Wei official, grandfather of Du Yu
  • Du Jin (杜堇) (ca. 1465–1509), Ming dynasty painter
  • Du Mu (杜牧) (803–852), Tang dynasty poet
  • Lady Du Qiu (杜秋娘) (fl. 807–831), Tang dynasty poet
  • Du Rangneng (杜讓能) (841–893), late Tang dynasty military leader
  • Du Ruhui (杜如晦) (585–630), Tang dynasty chancellor
  • Du Shenquan (杜审权) (d. 870), jiedushi during the late Tang Dynasty
  • Du Shi (杜詩) (d. 85), Han Dynasty mechanical engineer, credited with the invention of the water-powered blast furnace
  • Du Wei (杜伟) (1962–2020), Chinese diplomat
  • Du Yan (杜淹) (d. 628), Tang dynasty chancellor, uncle of Du Ruhui
  • Du Yu (杜預) (222–285), Jin dynasty classicist, wrote an influential commentary to the Zuozhuan
  • Junping Du (杜军平), Chinese computer scientist
  • Soon Ja Du, Korean-American shopkeeper convicted in the killing of Latasha Harlins
  • Wang Yanqiu (fl. 900), official and general during the Five Dynasties & Ten Kingdoms who bore the adoptive name Du Yanqiu (杜晏球)

Duh, Taw, To, Toh, Tu

都

It was found to be the 330th most common surname, shared by 140,060 people or 0.011% of the population, with the province with the most being Shandong.

  • Du Mu (Ming dynasty), (Chinese: 都穆; 1459–1525) was a Chinese poet, scholar and art critic from Suzhou
  • Ray Du English (Chinese: 阿滴英文) is a Taiwanese educational YouTube channel hosted by 2 siblings, one of whom is internet personality Ray Du (都省瑞)

See also

References

  1. ^ 石璐言, ed. (2021-02-08). "《二〇二〇年全国姓名报告》发布". Archived from the original on 2021-02-08. Retrieved 2022-07-24.
  2. ^ "汉典：杜的解释". Archived from the original on 2019-11-12. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
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