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何 He — a top-40 surname
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| Pinyin | He |
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| Strokes | 7 |
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| Commonness | a top-40 surname |
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| Type | single-character |
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Where the surname comes from
A surname meaning 'to carry', traced to ancient nobility of the Zhou dynasty.
Why it scores this way
Easy to say96
Reads the way it looks for an English speaker — no sounds English doesn't have.
Recognised in China87
A very common surname (roughly the top 40 in China).
Easy to write85
7 strokes — one of the simpler surnames to write and sign.
People who carried this name
- He Zhen — Tang dynasty scholar (d. 820) and writer, one of the 'Ten Talents of the Dali era'.
- He Shaoji — Qing dynasty calligrapher and poet, renowned for his distinctive cursive script and deep classical scholarship.
- He Xiangning — Chinese revolutionary, feminist, and painter in the early 20th century, a prominent left-wing leader in the Kuomintang.
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