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Yu (Chinese surname)

Index Yu (Chinese surname)

Yu is the pinyin romanisation of several Chinese family names. [1]

85 relations: Amos Yee, Anhui, Audrey Eu, Beidi, Candice Yu, Cantonese, Charmaine Yee, China, Chinese characters, Chinese name, Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Chinese surname, Chu (state), Consort Yu, Dennis Yu, Emperor Shun, Eu Tong Sen, Fujian, Gan Chinese, Grand chancellor (China), Guangdong, Harlem Yu, Hokkien, Hubei, Hui people, Hunan, Indonesia, James Yee, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jiyuan Yu, King Tai of Zhou, King Wu of Zhou, Korean language, Leland Yee, List of common Chinese surnames, List of people with surname Yu, Luoyang, Manchu people, Miao people, Middle Chinese, Misaya, Mongols, Northern and Southern dynasties, Patrick Yu, Pinglu County, Pinyin, Qiang people, Qin (state), Romanization, ..., Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Shawn Yue, She County, Anhui, Spring and Autumn period, Standard Chinese, Taishanese, Tang dynasty, Vietnam, Vietnamese language, Wade–Giles, Xiang Chinese, Xianyang, Xin'an County, Xiongnu, Yellow Emperor, Yi people, Yoo (Korean surname), You (surname), Yu (surname 于), Yu Fan, Yu Hua, Yu Hung-chun, Yu Kuo-hwa, Yu Nan, Yu Qiuli, Yu Shinan, Yu the Great, Yu Zhengsheng, Yucheng County, Zhejiang, Zheng (state), Zhongyong of Wu, Zhou dynasty. Expand index (35 more) »

Amos Yee

Amos Yee Pang Sang (born 31 October 1998) is a Singaporean YouTube personality, blogger and former child actor.

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Anhui

Anhui is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the eastern region of the country.

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Audrey Eu

Audrey Eu Yuet-mee is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and was founding leader of the Civic Party.

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Beidi

The Beidi, Northern Di, or Northern Barbarians were various ethnic groups who lived north of the Chinese (Huaxia) realms during the Zhou dynasty.

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Candice Yu

Candice Yu (Yu On On) born Yu De Ying on 22 October 1959) is a Hong Kong film actress and occasional singer, best known for her films with Shaw Brothers Studio of the 1970s and 1980s. She was the first wife of Hong Kong actor, Chow Yun-fat.

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Cantonese

The Cantonese language is a variety of Chinese spoken in the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding area in southeastern China.

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Charmaine Yee

Charmaine Yee (born 1 July 1987), also known as (Yee Kah Yan), is a Singapore Emcee/Host & Radio Presenter/Producer and contracted artiste under Kiss 92FM.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Chinese characters

Chinese characters are logograms primarily used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese.

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Chinese name

Chinese personal names are names used by those from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora overseas.

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Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), also known as the People's PCC (人民政协) or just the PCC (政协), is a political advisory body in the People's Republic of China.

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Chinese surname

Chinese surnames are used by Han Chinese and Sinicized ethnic groups in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Brunei, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and among overseas Chinese communities.

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Chu (state)

Chu (Old Chinese: *s-r̥aʔ) was a hegemonic, Zhou dynasty era state.

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Consort Yu

Consort Yu (died 202 BC), personal name Yu Miaoyi, also known as "Yu the Beauty", was the concubine of the warlord Xiang Yu, who competed with Liu Bang (Emperor Gao), the founder of the Han dynasty, for supremacy over China in the Chu–Han Contention (206–202 BC).

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Dennis Yu

Dennis Yu Yun-kong (余允抗_ is a Hong Kong film director active in the 1980s, and a crucial member of Hong Kong New Wave. He is most famous for directing horror movies. The Imp (兇榜, 1981), Yu's horror movie with strong influence of Roman Polanski, is widely regarded as a forerunner of haunted-house movie in Hong Kong.

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Emperor Shun

Shun, also known as Emperor Shun and Chonghua, was a legendary leader of ancient China, regarded by some sources as one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.

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Eu Tong Sen

Eu Tong Sen (23 July 1877 – 11 May 1941) was a leading businessman in Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong during the late 19th and early 20th century.

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Fujian

Fujian (pronounced), formerly romanised as Foken, Fouken, Fukien, and Hokkien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China.

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Gan Chinese

Gan is a group of Chinese varieties spoken as the native language by many people in the Jiangxi province of China, as well as significant populations in surrounding regions such as Hunan, Hubei, Anhui, and Fujian.

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Grand chancellor (China)

The grand chancellor, also translated as counselor-in-chief, chancellor, chief councillor, chief minister, imperial chancellor, lieutenant chancellor and prime minister, was the highest-ranking executive official in the imperial Chinese government.

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Guangdong

Guangdong is a province in South China, located on the South China Sea coast.

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Harlem Yu

Harlem Yu (born 28 July 1961) is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter, television host and businessman.

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Hokkien

Hokkien (from) or (閩南語/閩南話), is a Southern Min Chinese dialect group originating from the Minnan region in the south-eastern part of Fujian Province in Southeastern China and Taiwan, and spoken widely there and by the Chinese diaspora in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and other parts of Southeast Asia, and by other overseas Chinese all over the world.

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Hubei

Hubei is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the Central China region.

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Hui people

The Hui people (Xiao'erjing: خُوِذُو; Dungan: Хуэйзў, Xuejzw) are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed of Han Chinese adherents of the Muslim faith found throughout China, mainly in the northwestern provinces of the country and the Zhongyuan region.

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Hunan

Hunan is the 7th most populous province of China and the 10th most extensive by area.

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Indonesia

Indonesia (or; Indonesian), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.

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James Yee

James J. Yee (or 余优素福, also known by the Arabic name Yusuf Yee) (born c. 1968) is an American former United States Army chaplain with the rank of captain.

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Jiangsu

Jiangsu, formerly romanized as Kiangsu, is an eastern-central coastal province of the People's Republic of China.

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Jiangxi

Jiangxi, formerly spelled as Kiangsi Gan: Kongsi) is a province in the People's Republic of China, located in the southeast of the country. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north into hillier areas in the south and east, it shares a border with Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei to the northwest. The name "Jiangxi" derives from the circuit administrated under the Tang dynasty in 733, Jiangnanxidao (道, Circuit of Western Jiangnan; Gan: Kongnomsitau). The short name for Jiangxi is 赣 (pinyin: Gàn; Gan: Gōm), for the Gan River which runs across from the south to the north and flows into the Yangtze River. Jiangxi is also alternately called Ganpo Dadi (贛鄱大地) which literally means the "Great Land of Gan and Po".

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Jiyuan Yu

Jiyuan Yu (July 5, 1964 – November 3, 2016) was a moral philosopher noted for his work on virtue ethics.

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King Tai of Zhou

King Tai of Zhou or Gugong Danfu was a great leader of the Zhou clan during the Shang dynasty.

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King Wu of Zhou

King Wu of Zhou was the first king of the Zhou dynasty of ancient China.

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Korean language

The Korean language (Chosŏn'gŭl/Hangul: 조선말/한국어; Hanja: 朝鮮말/韓國語) is an East Asian language spoken by about 80 million people.

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Leland Yee

Leland Yin Yee (born November 20, 1948) is a former Democratic California State Senator for District 8, which when he was elected, covered parts of San Francisco and the Peninsula.

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List of common Chinese surnames

These are lists of the most common Chinese surnames in mainland China (People's Republic of China), Taiwan (Republic of China), and the Chinese diaspora overseas as provided by authoritative government or academic sources.

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List of people with surname Yu

Yu is the pinyin romanisation of several Chinese family names.

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Luoyang

Luoyang, formerly romanized as Loyang, is a city located in the confluence area of Luo River and Yellow River in the west of Henan province.

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Manchu people

The Manchu are an ethnic minority in China and the people from whom Manchuria derives its name.

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Miao people

The Miao is an ethnic group belonging to South China, and is recognized by the government of China as one of the 55 official minority groups.

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Middle Chinese

Middle Chinese (formerly known as Ancient Chinese) or the Qieyun system (QYS) is the historical variety of Chinese recorded in the Qieyun, a rime dictionary first published in 601 and followed by several revised and expanded editions.

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Misaya

Yu Jingxi (born October 19, 1992), also known by his in-game ID Misaya, was a Chinese League of Legends profession player for the team World Elite (Team WE).

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Mongols

The Mongols (ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯᠴᠤᠳ, Mongolchuud) are an East-Central Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia and China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

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Northern and Southern dynasties

The Northern and Southern dynasties was a period in the history of China that lasted from 420 to 589, following the tumultuous era of the Sixteen Kingdoms and the Wu Hu states.

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Patrick Yu

Dr Patrick Yu Shuk Siu (Chinese: 余叔韶) (born August 22, 1922) is a celebrated trial and appellate lawyer in Hong Kong.

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Pinglu County

Pinglu County is a county in southern Shanxi province of China.

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Pinyin

Hanyu Pinyin Romanization, often abbreviated to pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese in mainland China and to some extent in Taiwan.

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Qiang people

The Qiang people are an ethnic group in China.

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Qin (state)

Qin (Old Chinese: *) was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty.

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Romanization

Romanization or romanisation, in linguistics, is the conversion of writing from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so.

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Shaanxi

Shaanxi is a province of the People's Republic of China.

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Shandong

Shandong (formerly romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the East China region.

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Shanxi

Shanxi (postal: Shansi) is a province of China, located in the North China region.

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Shawn Yue

Shawn Yue Man-lok (born 13 November 1981) is a Hong Kong actor and singer.

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She County, Anhui

She County, or Shexian, is a county in Anhui Province, China under the jurisdiction of Huangshan City.

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Spring and Autumn period

The Spring and Autumn period was a period in Chinese history from approximately 771 to 476 BC (or according to some authorities until 403 BC) which corresponds roughly to the first half of the Eastern Zhou Period.

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Standard Chinese

Standard Chinese, also known as Modern Standard Mandarin, Standard Mandarin, or simply Mandarin, is a standard variety of Chinese that is the sole official language of both China and Taiwan (de facto), and also one of the four official languages of Singapore.

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Taishanese

Taishanese, or in the Cantonese romanization Toishanese (Taishanese), is a dialect of Yue Chinese.

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Tang dynasty

The Tang dynasty or the Tang Empire was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

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Vietnam

Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia.

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Vietnamese language

Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language that originated in Vietnam, where it is the national and official language.

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Wade–Giles

Wade–Giles, sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization system for Mandarin Chinese.

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Xiang Chinese

Xiang or Hsiang, also known as Hunanese, is a group of linguistically similar and historically related varieties of Chinese, spoken mainly in Hunan province but also in northern Guangxi and parts of neighboring Guizhou and Hubei provinces.

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Xianyang

Xianyang is a prefecture-level city in central Shaanxi province, situated on the Wei River a few kilometers upstream (west) from the provincial capital of Xi'an.

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Xin'an County

Xin'an County (Chinese: 新安县; Pinyin: Xīn'ān Xiàn, Hakka Dialect: Sin On Yen) is a part of Luoyang City, Henan Province, People's Republic of China.

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Xiongnu

The Xiongnu were a confederation of nomadic peoples who, according to ancient Chinese sources, inhabited the eastern Asian Steppe from the 3rd century BC to the late 1st century AD.

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Yellow Emperor

The Yellow Emperor, also known as the Yellow Thearch, the Yellow God or the Yellow Lord, or simply by his Chinese name Huangdi, is a deity in Chinese religion, one of the legendary Chinese sovereigns and culture heroes included among the mytho-historical Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors and cosmological Five Forms of the Highest Deity (五方上帝 Wǔfāng Shàngdì).

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Yi people

The Yi or Nuosuo people (historically known as Lolo) are an ethnic group in China, Vietnam, and Thailand.

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Yoo (Korean surname)

Yu — also spelled Yoo or You — or sometimes Ryu or Ryoo is the English transcription of several Korean surnames written as 유 or 류 in Hangul.

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You (surname)

You is the pinyin romanization of several Chinese family names including 尤 Yóu, 游 Yóu, 犹 Yóu, 由 Yóu, 右 Yòu, 幽 Yōu, etc.

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Yu (surname 于)

Yu is the 82nd surname mentioned in the Hundred Family Surnames.

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Yu Fan

Yu Fan (164–233), courtesy name Zhongxiang, was an official and scholar of the state of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of China.

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Yu Hua

Yu Hua is a Chinese author, born April 3, 1960 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.

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Yu Hung-chun

Yu Hung-chun (4 January 1898 – 1 June 1960), widely known as O. K. Yui, was a Chinese political figure who served as mayor of Shanghai, chairman of the Taiwan Provincial Government and Premier of the Republic of China.

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Yu Kuo-hwa

Yu Kuo-hwa (January 10, 1914 – October 4, 2000) was the Premier of the Republic of China from 1984 to 1989.

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Yu Nan

Yu Nan (born 5 September 1976) is a Chinese actress.

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Yu Qiuli

Yu Qiuli (15 November 1914 – 3 February 1999) was vice prime minister of China from 1975 until 1982 and was a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China.

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Yu Shinan

Yu Shinan (558–638), courtesy name Boshi, posthumously known as Duke Wenyi of Yongxing, was a Chinese official, litterateur, Confucian scholar and calligrapher who lived in the early Tang dynasty and rose to prominence during the reign of Emperor Taizong.

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Yu the Great

Yu the Great (c. 2200 – 2100 BC) was a legendary ruler in ancient China famed for his introduction of flood control, inaugurating dynastic rule in China by establishing the Xia Dynasty, and for his upright moral character.

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Yu Zhengsheng

Yu Zhengsheng (born 5 April 1945) is a retired Chinese politician.

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Yucheng County

Yucheng County (Chinese: 虞城县; Pinyin: Yúchéng Xiàn) is a county located in the east of Henan province, People's Republic of China in Shangqiu city, with a population of approximately 1.08 million and an area of.

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Zhejiang

, formerly romanized as Chekiang, is an eastern coastal province of China.

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Zheng (state)

Zheng (Old Chinese: *) was a vassal state in China during the Zhou Dynasty (1046–221 BCE) located in the centre of ancient China in modern-day Henan Province on the North China Plain about east of the royal capital at Luoyang.

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Zhongyong of Wu

Zhongyong was the second ruler of the ancient Chinese State of Wu according to traditional Chinese history.

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Zhou dynasty

The Zhou dynasty or the Zhou Kingdom was a Chinese dynasty that followed the Shang dynasty and preceded the Qin dynasty.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_(Chinese_surname)

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