Chinese surname No. 6 Wu2
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Wu2 means : name of a State in ancient China(province of Jiangsu
); a Chinese surname.
(Ancient time Wu2 meant big or great in Wu2 dialect).
e.g. Wu2 is written as "Kou3 (mouth) sitting on top of Tian (sky)".
Surname Wu2 is about 3100 years old.
Variations include Woo(Mandarin), Ng (Cantonese), Ang, Eng (Anglicized
Cantonese) [r36.4]
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For some information about this, see
In Search of your Asian Roots: Genealogical Research
on Chinese Surnames, paragraph 564. Bibliography entries 109 and 115 also refer to this surname.
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