GGood Chinese Name

Chinese surname · rank 66

付

付 is read as fù.

Pinyin

fù

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 付

Basic meaning

give; hand over

Five element

Water

Origin

Time: Modern simplified-character period; rare older records noted separately; Modern simplified-character period, 20th-21st century CE; rare older records are noted separately

Place: Modern records across mainland China; older -related traditions are separately associated with Fu Yan and Fu Yue accounts

Origin note

needs the same caution used for other modern written-form surnames. Source-backed accounts say there was a rare older surname, but the large modern population is strongly affected by twentieth-century practice that wrote as in records. The page therefore treats modern as a written-form layer often associated with , while keeping rare older records separate and avoiding the claim that every family is simply or that the two surnames are historically identical.

Historical figures

付笛声 (Fu Disheng)

born 1966 CE · singer

A modern public figure with the 付 surname.

付辛博 (Fu Xinbo)

born 1987 CE · actor and singer

A contemporary public figure with the 付 surname.

Sources checked

  • 23mofang surname library: - rare older records and modern -to- written-form history
  • Wikipedia: - modern surname confusion with or and distinction from
  • Huanqiu: - reported registration and simplification cases linking families with records
  • Han Dian: - basic character meaning and surname listing