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Chinese surname · rank 374

赫

赫 is read as hè.

Pinyin

hè

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 赫

Basic meaning

bright, radiant, glowing

Five element

Fire

Origin

Time: Qing changed-surname or clan layer, 1644-1912 CE

Place: Legendary Hexu clan tradition; Liaodong / Manchu Hesheri and related Eight Banner surname layers; Xibe Heyer and Mongol He-related clan layers; Helian / Tiefu Xiongnu compound-surname layer

Origin note

赫 has several source-backed surname layers. One is an ancient-clan tradition from Hexu, a legendary early ruler or clan name; later surname books preserve He and Hexu as related old clan names. A second major layer comes from Qing and later changed surnames: Manchu Hesheri, Hejia, Heyehu and related Eight Banner names, plus Xibe and Mongol clan names, were often rendered with the Han surname He. A third layer is connected with the compound surname Helian: Helian Bobo's Sixteen Kingdoms-era surname is separately recorded, and some later lines shortened compound names to single-character He. This page keeps those branches separate and does not treat the ordinary meaning bright, radiant as the surname origin.

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