Chinese surname · rank 227
郁
郁 is read as yù.
yù
Simplified 郁 · Traditional 鬱
sweet smelling, rich in aroma; (Cant.) to move, hit
Earth
Time: Spring and Autumn state or fief tradition, Han county-name layers, and later frontier or ethnic-adoption layers; Spring and Autumn tradition, 770-476 BCE
Place: Yulangcheng in today's Yutai, Shandong; Yuyi in today's Longxian, Shaanxi; Yuzhi or Yuzhi county around Qingyang, Gansu and Pingdu, Shandong; Yuzhou at today's Lianyungang; Yu water in Guangxi and Guangdong
Origin note
郁 is a multi-layer place and state-name surname. One tradition says an ancient Yu state or Wu great-officer fief lay near Yulangcheng in today's Yutai, Shandong, and descendants took the place name as a surname. A second layer is explicitly geographic: Han and earlier names such as 郁夷县, 郁秩县, 郁致 or 郁郅, 郁洲, and 郁水 could all produce local surname branches. The surname references also preserve non-Han adoption layers, including Xiongnu and Tuge people, the western-region Yulishi state, Hexi Chile names such as Yuzhuyu, and other frontier groups. Because these lines are not one genealogy, the page presents 郁 as a state/place/water-name surname with later ethnic-adoption branches.
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