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姚 Yao — a top-100 surname
79.4 / 100 overall fit
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| Pinyin | Yao |
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| Strokes | 9 |
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| Commonness | a top-100 surname |
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| Type | single-character |
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Where the surname comes from
A surname from the sage-king Shun, whose clan lived by the Yao mountain.
What the character means
Graceful and beautiful
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 China65
Common enough that most Chinese speakers recognise it (roughly the top 100).
Easy to write75
9 strokes — a little practice and it flows.
People who carried this name
- Yao Ming — NBA Hall of Fame center (b.1980), China's most famous basketball player.
- Yao Chong — Tang dynasty chancellor who served under Emperor Xuanzong and contributed to the prosperous Kaiyuan era.
- Yao Nai — Qing dynasty scholar and writer, a leading figure of the Tongcheng School of prose.
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