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Hsu

Hsu proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Hsu (plural Hsus)

  1. A surname.
    • In 1953, station director Cheng Tsung-yuan used timber from trees blown down in high winds to construct a hexagonal hall that would represent Liouguei. It was named Tsu Ching Hall, after Hsu Ching-chong, first agriculture director of the Taiwanese provincial government.2011 December 29, “Shanping Forest Ecological Science Park”, in Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2023
    • Historian Hsu Cho-yun (許倬雲), a correspondence research fellow at Academia Sinica's Institute of History and Philology, has died in the United States at 94, Taiwan's top research institution confirmed in a statement Monday.
    • Hsu's death Sunday (U.S. time) was also confirmed by the Tang Prize Foundation in Taipei, which in 2024 honored the historian as a laureate in Sinology.2025 August 4, Chen Ching-fang, Kay Liu, “Historian Hsu Cho-yun dies at 94”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2025, Culture

Forms of Hsu

pluralHsus
alternative alsoHsü
alternative formSheu
alternative formSyu
alternative Hanyu-PinyinXu

Origin of Hsu

Borrowed from Mandarin 許／许 (Xǔ) or 徐 (Xú) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsü.

Questions about Hsu

What does Hsu mean?
Hsu means a surname.
What part of speech is Hsu?
Hsu is a proper noun.

Words near Hsu in the dictionary

  1. HSSH
  2. HST
  3. hstead
  4. hsteads
  5. HSTS
  6. Hsu
  7. Hsu-ch'ang
  8. Hsu-chou
  9. Hsuan Wu
  10. Hsuan-en
  11. Hsuan-wu

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