Chinese surname No.145 Mei2[梅 ]

Mei2[梅 ] means : prune; plum.
e.g. Mei2[梅 ] Hua means : the plum blossom.
Surname Mei2 is about 3100 years old.
Variations include Moy, Mui (Cantonese), Bui (Hokkien, Vietnamese)

The history of surname Mei2 [梅 ]
Moy Family of Guangdong, Original Ancestor Moy Wing Ting, Ancestral Temple 30 km South of Guangzhou.

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The history of surname Mei2[梅 ]

For some information about this, see In Search of your Asian Roots: Genealogical Research on Chinese Surnames, paragraph 344.
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