Xu can be a pinyin transliteration of one of several Chinese surnames:

1. traditional Chinese: 徐; pinyin: Xú; Wade-Giles: hsü², also spelled Hsu or Tsui or Eu
2. traditional Chinese: 許; simplified Chinese: 许; pinyin: Xǔ; Wade-Giles: hsü³, also spelled Hui or Hii

They are both pronounced somewhat like shoo, with the oo pronounced as in the French u or German ü, a sound with no exact equivalent most dialects of English. In Chinese, the pronunciations of the two names differ in tone: Xú and Xǔ. In Korean, the name is pronounced Seo.

People surnamed 徐 Xú

• Xu Hui, Table Tennis player
• Xu Xin, Table Tennis player
• Xu Beihong, painter
• Xu Bing, artist
• Xu Da, Ming dynasty general
• Xu Demei, Chinese javelin thrower
• Xu Guangqi, Ming dynasty scholar-official
• Xu Huang, Cao Wei general
• Xu Jun, chess player
• Xu Sheng, 3rd century general
• Xu Shichang, President of Republic of China (Beiyang government)
• Xu Shouhui, Yuan dynasty rebel leader
• Xu Wei, Ming dynasty painter
• Xu Xiake, writer
• Xu Xiangqian, Chinese Communist military leader
• Xu Yuan, footballer
• Xu Zhimo, author
• Tsui Hark, film director
• Paula Tsui, retired pop singer from Hong Kong
• Tsui Po Ko, renegade officer in the Hong Kong Police Force
• Vivian Hsu, actress
• Philip Jaisohn, first Korean-American citizen
• Seo Jang Geum, lead lady in the popular Korean TV series Dae Jang Geum
• Jackie Xu, athlete

People surnamed 許/许 Xǔ

• Xu Chu, Cao Wei general
• Xu Dishan, author
• Xu Shen, Han dynasty dictionary compiler
• Xu Shiyou, Chinese general
• Evonne Hsu, singer
• Hsu Hsin-liang, Taiwanese politician
• Samuel Hui, musician, actor
• Michael Hui, filmmaker
• Andy Hui, singer, actor
• Hsu Wei Lun (1978 – 2007), Taiwanese actress
• Vanessa Koh, singer, actress

External links

• Chinese surname history: Xu