Chinese surname · rank 50

卢

卢 is read as lú.

Pinyin

lú

Script forms

Simplified 卢 · Traditional 盧

Basic meaning

black; rice vessel; old place name

Five element

Fire

Origin

Time: Spring and Autumn period, Qi Gao Xi / Jingzhong lineage tradition; Spring and Autumn tradition, 770-476 BCE

Place: Lu / Jibei Lu County in Qi; modern local-history sources associate Lu old city with Changqing, Jinan, Shandong

Origin note

A major Lu surname tradition traces Lu to the Qi minister Gao Xi / Jingzhong line: surname books say his branch held Lu as a fief/place, identified in Xin Tang Shu as Jibei Lu County, and descendants used Lu as the surname. Treat this as a transmitted surname-origin tradition; keep character meanings such as rice vessel or black separate.

Historical figures

卢照邻 (Lu Zhaolin)

c. 637-c. 689 CE · Tang poet

One of the Four Paragons of the Early Tang.

卢纶 (Lu Lun)

c. 739-c. 799 CE · Tang poet

A Tang poet known for frontier and regulated verse.

Sources checked

Han Dian: Lu - basic character meanings and surname listing
Yuanhe Xingzuan, vol. 3: Lu - Jiang surname / Qi Taigong descendant tradition; Gao Xi held Lu and descendants used Lu as surname
Xin Tang Shu, vol. 73: Chancellor Genealogies, Lu - Lu surname from Jiang/Qi line; Gao Xi held Lu, identified as Jibei Lu County; descendants used Lu as surname
Dazhong News / Qilu Yidian: Lu old city and Lu surname origin - modern local-history context for Lu / Lu old city in Changqing, Jinan, Shandong

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Origin note

Historical figures

卢照邻 (Lu Zhaolin)

卢纶 (Lu Lun)

Sources checked

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