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秋 Qiu — a rarer surname
61.6 / 100 overall fit
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| Pinyin | Qiu |
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| Strokes | 9 |
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| Commonness | outside the top 100 |
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| Type | single-character |
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| Theme | Nature |
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Where the surname comes from
A surname meaning 'autumn', from the ancient state of Qiu.
Theme basis：秋 = autumn
Why it scores this way
Easy to say71
Mostly easy. The only friction is q, iu, which English speakers usually turn into something close.
Recognised in China42
Outside the top 100 — distinctive, but some people will ask you to repeat or write it.
Easy to write75
9 strokes — a little practice and it flows.
People who carried this name
- Qiu Jin — Revolutionary and poet (1875–1907), heroine of the anti-Qing movement.
- Qiu Hu — A nobleman of Lu in the Spring and Autumn period, known for the tale 'Qiu Hu Flirts with His Wife', a classic moral lesson in ancient China.
- Qiu Pu — Chinese ethnologist, born 1919, a leading scholar in the study of China's ethnic minorities, former director of the Institute of Ethnology.
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