Chinese surname · rank 488
汝
汝 is read as rǔ.
rǔ
Simplified and traditional 汝
you
Earth
Time: Ancient surname tradition, before 221 BCE; exact calendar year not pinned by the attached sources
Place: Ru River / Ru Chuan in the Henan-centered historical geography layer; Yingchuan is also preserved in the Yuanhe Xingzuan line.
Origin note
Ru has more than one source-backed layer. One layer is place-based: people near the Ru River or Ru Chuan, and a later tradition of Zhou Pingwang youngest son being enfeoffed at Ru Chuan, took Ru as a surname. Another layer is ancestor-name based: Yuanhe Xingzuan preserves early names such as Rujiu and Rufang. The page keeps these as parallel recorded layers and does not collapse them into a single founder claim.
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