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Xu ( Chinese: 徐; pinyin: Xú; Wade–Giles: Hsü2; Jyutping: Ceoi4) is a Chinese-language surname. In the Wade-Giles system of romanization, it is spelled as " Hsu ", which is commonly used in Taiwan or overseas Chinese communities. It is different from Xu (surname 許), represented by a different character.
Xu can refer to the following Chinese surnames that are homographs when Romanized using their Mandarin pronunciations: . Xu (surname 徐) Xu (surname 許) The tones of these surnames are different in Mandarin, but if the tone diacritics are omitted then both surnames would be spelled Xu in pinyin, and Hsü in the Wade–Giles system or Hsu if the diaeresis is also omitted.
Xu Dishan (许地山; 許地山; pen name: Luo Huasheng (落華生); 1893 – 1941) was a Taiwan-born Chinese author, translator and folklorist. Xu Shen (许慎; c. 58 – c. 148 CE) was a Chinese politician, philologist, and writer of the Eastern Han dynasty. Xu Guiyuan (许桂源; born 1996) is a Chinese baseball first baseman and outfielder.
On the other hand, most who have Chinese ancestors who came to the Philippines prior to 1898 usually have multiple-syllable Chinese surnames such as Gokongwei, Ongpin, Pempengco, Yuchengco, Teehankee, and Yaptinchay among such others. These were originally full Chinese names which were transliterated in Spanish orthography and adopted as surnames.
Xu (surname), one of two Chinese surnames (徐 or 许 / 許), transliterated as Xu in English; ǃXu, a name for the ǃKung group of Bushmen; may also refer to the ǃKung language or the ǃKung people; ǃXu (god), the creator god of the ǃKung; Xu, a minor character in the game Final Fantasy VIII; Places. Xu (state) (徐), a state of ancient China
Chinese given names are almost always made up of one or - usually - two characters and are written after the surname. Therefore, Wei ( 伟) of the Zhang ( 张) family is called "Zhang Wei" and not "Wei Zhang". In contrast to the relative paucity of Chinese surnames, given names can theoretically include any of the Chinese language's 100,000 ...
Xu Zhimo (徐志摩, Wu Chinese pronunciation: [ʑi tsɿ mu], Mandarin: [ɕy̌ ʈʂî mwǒ], 15 January 1897 – 19 November 1931) was a Chinese romantic poet and writer of modern Chinese poetry who strove to loosen Chinese poetry from its traditional forms and to reshape it under the influences of Western poetry and the vernacular Chinese language.
Xu Xu, aka Hsu Yu (徐訏), was the pen name of Xu Boxu (徐伯訏; 11 November 1908 – 5 October 1980), an important figure in modern Chinese literature. Born in Cixi in the coastal province of Zhejiang , Xu Xu attended Peking University between 1927 and 1932 where he studied philosophy and psychology.