GGood Chinese Name

Chinese surname · rank 426

粟

粟 is read as sù.

Pinyin

sù

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 粟

Basic meaning

unhusked millet; grain

Five element

Wood

Origin

Time: Qin-Han official-title tradition, 221 BCE-220 CE

Place: Qin-Han court office context for Zhisu Neishi / Zhisu Duwei; Ming Sichuan Su-to-Su sound-change tradition; later Hunan and Sichuan distribution notes

Origin note

Su/粟 is treated as an office-title surname with a later sound-change layer, not merely the grain word millet. One source-backed account derives it from officials such as Zhisu Neishi or Zhisu Duwei, whose duties involved grain, finance, or military supplies, with descendants using the office term. A second account says a Su/宿 branch was later written as Su/粟 by sound change. The page keeps those layers separate from the dictionary grain meaning.

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