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管 Guan — a rarer surname
67.5 / 100 overall fit
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| Pinyin | Guan |
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| Strokes | 14 |
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| Commonness | outside the top 100 |
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| Type | single-character |
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Where the surname comes from
A surname meaning 'tube', associated with the great statesman Guan Zhong.
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 China50
Outside the top 100 — distinctive, but some people will ask you to repeat or write it.
Easy to write50
14 strokes — more than most; it will take real practice to write smoothly.
People who carried this name
- Guan Zhong — Spring and Autumn chancellor (720–645 BC), who made Qi the first hegemon.
- Guan Ning — A hermit of the Three Kingdoms period, known for cutting his mat to sever friendship with a corrupt official, symbolizing moral purity.
- Guan Daosheng — A Yuan Dynasty female painter and calligrapher, wife of Zhao Mengfu, renowned for her elegant bamboo paintings and poetry.
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