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白 Bai — a top-100 surname
88.2 / 100 overall fit
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| Pinyin | Bai |
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| Strokes | 5 |
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| Commonness | a top-100 surname |
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| Type | single-character |
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| Theme | Colour & metal |
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Where the surname comes from
A surname meaning 'white', from the ancient Chu state, associated with the poet Bai Juyi.
Theme basis：白 = white
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 China75
Common enough that most Chinese speakers recognise it (roughly the top 100).
Easy to write95
5 strokes — one of the simpler surnames to write and sign.
People who carried this name
- Bai Juyi — Tang dynasty poet (772–846), author of 'Song of Everlasting Sorrow'.
- Bai Qi — Chinese military general of the Qin state in the Warring States period, famed for the Battle of Changping and as Lord Wu'an.
- Bai Pu — Yuan dynasty Chinese dramatist, one of the Four Great Masters of Yuan drama, wrote plays such as Rain on the Paulownia Tree.
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