Yu / Yu
Yu, pronounced Yǔ, is a relatively rare Han Chinese surname, accounting for about 0.02% of the Han population nationwide. It is found in places including Wuqing in Tianjin; Shangyi and Shexian in Hebei; Changle in Shandong; Taiyuan in Shanxi; Hancheng in Shaanxi; Shanghang in Fujian; and Wuchuan in Guangdong.
One lineage is identified as descending from Earl Shen of the Jiang-surnamed state of Shen in the Zhou period and taking the surname from an ancestor's courtesy name; this account appears in the Lushi and Xingyuan.
Other Yu lineages include people who changed from the Xianbei compound surname Yuwen to Yu, a Western Xia lineage, and a Qing-period group of Yueluoshan indigenous people who adopted Yu as their surname.
The Yu surname is included in the clan sections of both Zheng Tongzhi and Xu Tongzhi. The latter also records Yu Dexian, a xuandelang official of Western Xia.
During the Ming dynasty, Yu Bin served as assistant prefect of Daming, while Yu Can of Jiangning passed the provincial examination during the Zhengtong reign.
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