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谈 Tan — a rarer surname
72.7 / 100 overall fit
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| Pinyin | Tan |
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| Strokes | 10 |
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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 from the ancient Tan state, associated with 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 China50
Outside the top 100 — distinctive, but some people will ask you to repeat or write it.
Easy to write70
10 strokes — a little practice and it flows.
People who carried this name
- Tan Xinpei — Peking opera master (1847–1917), founder of the Tan school of opera.
- Tan Qian — Ming dynasty historian known for compiling the Guoque, a monumental history of the Ming dynasty, after over two decades of effort.
- Tan Yunxian — Ming dynasty female physician, author of the medical text Nüyi Zayan, among the earliest recorded professional women doctors in China.
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