Chinese surname · rank 448
邸
邸 is read as dǐ.
dǐ
Simplified and traditional 邸
official residence, residence of
Earth
Time: Song textual or Bai Jia Xing layer, 960-1279 CE
Place: Di county in the place-name layer; Yuezhi / Kushan Western Regions context around Bactria / Afghanistan-Pakistan region in the Dijiuxi layer; later Hebei distribution notes.
Origin note
Di/邸 is a surname with a place-name layer and an outer-lineage layer. One source line says Di was a county name, so descendants or residents used the place name as surname. A second line connects the surname with Dijiuxi, a Yuezhi / Kushan lord in Han-era Western Regions context, whose descendants entered the Chinese surname tradition. These are kept separate from the ordinary character meaning residence or official lodging.
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