Xu

Xu can be a pinyin transliteration of one of several Chinese surnames:

1. 徐 (pinyin Xú, also spelled Hsü or Tsui)\n#許 (traditional) or 许 (simplified), (pinyin Xǔ, also spelled Hui)

In this context it is pronounced somewhat like Shoo.

Table of contents

1 Famous people surnamed 徐: 2 Famous people surnamed 許/许: 3 Non-Chinese meanings

Famous people surnamed 徐:

\n*Xu Bing, artist\n*Xu Huang, character from Romance of the Three Kingdoms\n*Xu Jun, chess player\n*Xu Sheng, 3rd century general\n*Xu Shichang, President of Republic of China (Beiyang government)\n*Xu Shouhui, Yuan dynasty rebel leader\n*Xu Wei, Ming dynasty painter\n*Xu Xiake, writer\n*Xu Xiangqian, Chinese Communist military leader\n*Xu Zhimo, author\n*Tsui Hark, film director\n*Vivian Hsu, actress\n*Philip Jaisohn, first Korean-American citizen

Famous people surnamed 許/许:

\n*Xu Dishan, author\n*Xu Shen, Han dynasty dictionary compiler\n*Evonne Hsu, singer\n*Hsu Hsin-liang, Taiwanese politician\n*Samuel Hui, musician\n*Michael Hui, filmmaker

Non-Chinese meanings

\n*Xu is the creater god of the Bushmen of Africa.