Monday, October 6, 2008

Xu (surname)

Xu can be a pinyin transliteration of one of several Chinese surnames:

#, also spelled Hsu or Tsui or Eu
#, also spelled Hui or Hii

They are both pronounced somewhat like ''shoo'', with the ''oo'' pronounced as in the French ''u'' or German ''ü'', . In Chinese, the pronunciations of the two names differ in tone: Xú and Xǔ. In Korean, the name is pronounced ''Seo''.

People surnamed Xú


*Xu Hui, Table Tennis player
*Xu Xin, Table Tennis player
*Xu Beihong, painter
*Xu Bing, artist
*Xu Da, Ming dynasty general
*Xu Demei, Chinese javelin thrower
*Xu Guangqi, Ming dynasty scholar-official
*Xu Huang, Cao Wei general
*Xu Jun, chess player
*Xu Sheng, 3rd century general
*Xu Shichang, President of Republic of China
*Xu Shouhui, Yuan dynasty rebel leader
*Xu Wei, Ming dynasty painter
*Xu Xiake, writer
*Xu Xiangqian, military leader
*, footballer
*Xu Zhimo, author
*Tsui Hark, film director
*Paula Tsui, retired pop singer from Hong Kong
*Tsui Po Ko, renegade officer in the Hong Kong Police Force
*Vivian Hsu, actress
*Philip Jaisohn, first Korean-American citizen
*Seo Jang Geum, lead lady in the popular Korean TV series Dae Jang Geum
*Jackie Xu, athlete

People surnamed Xǔ


*Xu Chu, Cao Wei general
*Xu Dishan, author
*Xu Shen, Han dynasty dictionary compiler
*Xu Shiyou, Chinese general
*Evonne Hsu, singer
*Hsu Hsin-liang, Taiwanese politician
*Samuel Hui, musician, actoryr
*Michael Hui, filmmaker
*Andy Hui, singer, actor
*Hsu Wei Lun , Taiwanese actress
*Vanessa Koh, singer, actress

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