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赖 Lai — a top-100 surname
75.6 / 100 overall fit
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| Pinyin | Lai |
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| Strokes | 13 |
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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 ancient state of Lai, common in Guangdong and Taiwan.
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 China69
Common enough that most Chinese speakers recognise it (roughly the top 100).
Easy to write55
13 strokes — more than most; it will take real practice to write smoothly.
People who carried this name
- Lai Shengchuan — Playwright and theatre director (b.1954), founder of the Performance Workshop.
- Lai Ho — Taiwanese writer, known as the father of Taiwanese new literature, whose works depict social realities under Japanese colonial rule.
- Lai Shaoqi — Modern Chinese woodcut artist, painter, and calligrapher, celebrated for innovative prints and expressive landscape paintings.
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