bù
Bu is a currently rare surname, pronounced bù. It is recorded in the Zheng Tongzhi: Clan Records under the shangsheng Bu section. Bu Yidi was the Right Sage King of the Southern Xiongnu, and the Zhangqiu County Gazetteer records the Bu surname.
One branch of the Bu surname originated with Bu Yidi, the Right Sage King of the Southern Xiongnu. His descendants adopted a Chinese character homophone of his name as their surname and became integrated into the Han and Mongol peoples.
One branch originated from buqu, a military institution and official designation in the Qin and Han periods. The surname Buqu was later abbreviated to the single surnames Bu and Qu.
The Bu Clan Genealogy records that one branch came from the Mongol Borjigin royal clan and adopted Bu from a tribal designation. This branch used Bu as its Chinese surname when adopting Han surnames around the late Yuan and early Ming periods.
People with the Bu surname are distributed across Hebei, Hunan, Inner Mongolia, Yunnan, Shanghai, Shandong, Liaoning, Henan, Hubei, Taiwan, and other areas.
The Zhangqiu Bu lineage in Shandong uses the generation sequence “祖先……乙予永传令敬先德景义（仪）昌”; the Junxian Bu lineage in Henan uses “宝松延新春树茂青盛锦贵德群贤芳恒英宏广强”.
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