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Chinese surname · rank 455

沃

沃 is read as wò.

Pinyin

wò

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 沃

Basic meaning

water, irrigate; fertile, rich

Five element

Water

Origin

Time: Shang tradition, c. 1600-1046 BCE

Place: Shang royal-lineage context; Wozhou place-name tradition; Taiyuan / Wuxing commandery notes.

Origin note

Wo/沃 is not just the character meaning moist or fertile. The main layer is Zi-surname, from descendants of the Shang king Woding who used the ancestor name Wo. Other surname sources add a Wozhou place-name layer connected with Song / Shang descendants and a Zhou office-title layer from Woshi, an official connected with hand-washing rites. These are kept as separate traditions.

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