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Chinese surname · rank 285

屠

屠 is read as tú.

Pinyin

tú

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 屠

Basic meaning

butcher, slaughter, massacre

Five element

Earth

Origin

Time: Shang Tu fief layer of about 3100 years in 23mofang, Spring-and-Autumn Jin Tu Kuai office layer of about 2500 years, Zou-Tu legendary place-name layer, Wudu Di layer, Qing Manchu layer, Song Hubei-Zhejiang distribution layer, and Ming Zhejiang-Guangxi-Hubei-Jiangsu distribution layer; Shang tradition, c. 1600-1046 BCE

Place: Tu fief around today's Heyang, Shaanxi; Jin state food-office context; Zou-Tu or Jining/Shandong place-name tradition; Wudu Di context; Qing Manchu Banner context; Hubei, Zhejiang, Guangxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Guizhou, Fuzhou, Xiaogan, and Zhejiang/Jiangsu genealogy contexts

Origin note

Tu is read tu as a surname. The strongest source-backed line is a fief-name surname: descendants of Shang Tang collateral branches were enfeoffed at Tu, placed around today's Heyang, Shaanxi, and later used the fief or place name as a surname; 23mofang dates this Zi-surname Tu line to about 3100 years. A second line is occupational and office-based: in Spring-and-Autumn Jin, the shanzai or zaifu office handled the ruler's food, and the figure Tu Kuai is linked with this office; descendants used Tu as an occupational or office surname, a line 23mofang dates to about 2500 years. Additional layers should be kept separate: the Shiyiji tradition says people moved to the Zou-Tu area after the Huangdi-Chiyou conflict and later formed Zou and Tu surnames; Beishi-related summaries record Wudu Tu from Di people; and later Manchu or other changed-surname branches also exist. The page keeps Shang fief-name, Jin office-name, Zou-Tu place legend, Di, and Manchu layers separate.

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