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Tu (surname)

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Tu (Chinese: 屠; pinyin: Tú) is a Chinese family name, and the 279th family name in Hundred Family Surnames (百家姓).

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Origin

From one of the characters in the name of the ancient city of Zoutu. The legendary emperor Yellow Emperor (2697–2595 BC) used this city as a military base.

People with the surname Tu (屠)

  • Tu Youyou (屠呦呦), a Chinese female medical scientist awarded the 2011 Lasker Award in Clinical Medicine and the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura.

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