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Xu can be a pinyin transliteration of one of several Chinese surnames:- 徐 (pinyin Xú, also spelled Hsü or Tsui)
- 許 ( traditional) or 许 ( simplified), (pinyin Xǔ, also spelled Hui)
In this context it is pronounced somewhat like Shoo.
1 Famous people surnamed 徐:
- Xu Bing, artist
- Xu Huang, character from Romance of the Three Kingdoms
- Xu Jun, chess player
- Xu Sheng, 3rd century general
- Xu Shichang, President of Republic of China ( Beiyang government)
- Xu Shouhui, Yuan dynasty rebel leader
- Xu Wei, Ming dynasty painter
- Xu Xiake, writer
- Xu Xiangqian, Chinese CommunistThe Communist Party of China ( Simplified Chinese: , Traditional Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Zhongguo Gongchndng) is the ruling party of the People's Republic of China. The party was founded in 1921, and fought the Kuomintang during the Chinese Civil War. military leader
- Xu ZhimoXu Zhimo (, pinyin: Xu Zhimo) ( January 15, 1893- November 19, 1931) is a twentieth-century Chinese poet. A romantic who loved the poetry of the English Romantics like Keats and Shelley, he was one of the first Chinese writers to successfully naturalize W, author
- Xu, Zhenya , Well-known Lingustist, Computer Scientist, and Educator.
- Tsui HarkTsui Hark (; pinyin: Xu Ke, Wade-Giles: Hsu K'o) (born January 2, 1951) is a New Wave film director in Hong Kong who is also a highly influential producer, often likened to Steven Spielberg for a similar galvanizing effect on his country's cinematic scene, film director
- Vivian HsuVivian Hsu ( Traditional Chinese: , pinyin: Xu Ruoxun) (born March 19 1975) is a famous Taiwanese singer, actress and model. She published several nude photo albums, including Angel Heart and Venus''. She quit the nude modelling before she started her sin, actress
- Philip JaisohnPhilip Jaisohn is the Anglicized name taken up by Seo Jae Pil (; ). He was born in 1864 as a second son of a county magistrate in Bosung (; ) in southwestern Korea. He passed the government examination and became a junior official in 1882. The following y, first Korean-American citizen
2 Famous people surnamed 許/许:
- Xu DishanXu Dishan ( 1893 1941) was a Chinese author who studied Buddhism. See also List of Chinese authors Dishan, Xu Dishan, Xu., author
- Xu ShenXu Shen was the author of Shuowen Jiezi which was the first character dictionary of the Chinese writing. It contains over 9,000 character entries under 540 radicals, explaining the origins of the characters. Xu Shen lived in the Han Dynasty, and wrote his, Han dynasty dictionary compiler
- Evonne HsuTaiwanese musicians Evonne Hsu (, b. December 5, 1982) is a Taiwanese pop singer. She has been seen in countless television advertisements, and is one of the most famous pop singers in Taiwan and many parts of Asia. To date, Evonne has recorded four album, singer
- Hsu Hsin-liang, Taiwanese politician
- Samuel Hui, musician
- Michael Hui, filmmaker
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