Fu (傅)
A Taiwanese surname.
傅 Fu
- Zhuyin
- ㄈㄨˋ
- Pinyin
- fù
- Wade-Giles
- Fu
- Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô)
- Pòo Pòo is the colloquial (白讀) reading, while hū is the character's literary (文讀) reading.
- Hakka (Sixian)
- fu⁵⁵
- Rank in Taiwan
- 58th most common surname, roughly 0.22% of the population (2023 Ministry of the Interior figures)
What the character means
'Tutor, teacher' (as in 師傅); as a verb it means 'to assist' or 'to apply, smear'.
Where the surname comes from
Tradition traces it to Fu Yue (傅說), a labourer at Fuyan (傅巖) whom the Shang king Wu Ding raised to chief minister. Hall name (堂號): 濟河堂.
Saying it 我姓傅 — wǒ xìng fù (ㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄈㄨˋ), "my family name is 傅"
Sources: rank and share, 內政部 全國姓名統計分析 (Ministry of the Interior, National Name Statistics), data as of 2023-06-30. Taiwanese Hokkien readings, 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi), 百家姓 appendix. Hakka, 教育部臺灣客語辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka), 百家姓表, Sixian (四縣腔).