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Several other, less common Chinese surnames are also transliterated into English as "Wu", but with different tones: 武 Wǔ , 伍 Wǔ , 仵 Wǔ , 烏 Wū (also Wù ), 鄔 Wū and 巫 Wū . Wu (or Woo or Wou ) is also the Cantonese transliteration of the Chinese surname 胡 (Mandarin Hu ), used in Hong Kong, and by overseas Chinese of Cantonese ...
Wu (Chinese: 伍; pinyin: Wǔ; Jyutping: Ng5) is a Chinese surname.It is the 89th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem. [1] It means ‘five’ in Chinese, an alternative form of the character 五. [2]
Wu (simplified Chinese: 吴语; traditional Chinese: 吳語; pinyin: Wúyǔ; Wugniu and IPA: 6 wu-gniu 6 [ɦu˩.nʲy˦] (Shanghainese), 2 ghou-gniu 6 [ɦou˨.nʲy˧] ()) is a major group of Sinitic languages spoken primarily in Shanghai, Zhejiang province, and parts of Jiangsu province, especially south of the Yangtze River, [2] which makes up the cultural region of Wu.
from Wu Luo (武羅), which is said to be either the name of a prehistoric state in present-day Guangxi or an official of the prehistoric Xia dynasty [1]; from the posthumous title of Duke Wu of Song (r. 765–748 BCE), Spring and Autumn period ruler of Song, in present-day Shangqiu, Henan
Qian Qianyi (1582–1664), a Chinese official, scholar and social historian of the late Ming dynasty. Shao Mi (1592-1642) a Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming dynasty. Zhang Dai (1597–1679), Ming writer, historian and biographer. Wu Weiye (1609–1671) was an author and poet in Classical Chinese poetry.
Wu Chinese (吴语; 吳語), a subgroup of Chinese languages now spoken in the Wu region; Wuyue culture (吳越文化), a regional Chinese culture in the Wu region; Wu (state) (Chinese: 吳; pinyin: Wú; Old Chinese: * ŋʷˤa), a kingdom during the Spring and Autumn period 771–476 BCE Suzhou or Wu (苏州; 蘇州; Sūzhōu), its eponymous ...
Wu wei (traditional Chinese: 無為; simplified Chinese: 无为; pinyin: wúwéi) is a polymorphic, ancient Chinese concept expressing an ideal practice of "inaction", "inexertion" or "effortless action", [a] [1] [2] as a state of personal harmony and free-flowing, spontaneous creative manifestation.
Wu (Chinese: 吳; pinyin: Wú; Middle Chinese *ŋuo < Eastern Han Chinese: *ŋuɑ [5]), known in historiography as Eastern Wu or Sun Wu, was a dynastic state of China and one of the three major states that competed for supremacy over China in the Three Kingdoms period.