Situ () is one of the more common
surviving
Survival skills are techniques used to sustain life in any type of natural environment or built environment. These techniques are meant to provide basic necessities for human life, including water, food, and shelter. Survival skills also sup ...
Chinese compound surname
A Chinese compound surname is a Chinese surname using more than one character. Many of these compound surnames derive from Zhou dynasty Chinese noble and official titles, professions, place names and other areas, to serve a purpose. Some are or ...
s. It is also spelled in
Wade–Giles
Wade–Giles ( ) is a romanization system for Mandarin Chinese. It developed from the system produced by Thomas Francis Wade during the mid-19th century, and was given completed form with Herbert Giles's '' A Chinese–English Dictionary'' ...
as Ssŭtu or in the
Mathews system as Szŭtu, and romanised from
Cantonese
Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It originated in the city of Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta. While th ...
as Szeto, Seto, or Sitou, or from
Taishanese
Taishanese (), alternatively romanized in Cantonese as Toishanese or Toisanese, in local dialect as Hoisanese or Hoisanwa, is a Yue Chinese language native to Taishan, Guangdong.
Even though they are related, Taishanese has little mutual i ...
as Soohoo or Soho.
It originates from the
ancient Chinese title Situ, which can be
translated as "Minister over the Masses". The surname is common in
Guangdong
) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...
province, particularly around
Kaiping
Kaiping (), postal map romanization, alternately romanization of Chinese, romanized in Cantonese as Hoiping, in local dialect as Hoihen, is a county-level city in Guangdong provinces of China, Province, China. It is located in the western secti ...
.
Statistics
According to data from the
in 2010, Situ was China's fourth-most common compound surname, behind
Ouyang
Ouyang () is a Chinese surname. It is the most common two-character Chinese compound surname, being the only two-character name of the 400 most common Chinese surnames, according to a 2013 study.
Variations/transliterations
* Chinese languages : ' ...
,
Shangguan, and
Huangfu. The census found roughly 45,000 bearers of the surname.
However, it is not among the top 400 surnames overall in China.
The following table presents statistics for more common spellings of this surname in the United States, according to the
United States Census
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. The
Hanyu Pinyin
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spelling Situ became more common between 2000 and 2010, while Szeto, Seto, and Soohoo remained at roughly the same rankings during that time period. Other spellings such as Ssutu, Szutu, Sitou, and Seetoo occurred fewer than 100 times in census data. Some of these spellings may also correspond to non-Chinese surnames; for example, Seto is also a Japanese surname (written in
kanji
are logographic Chinese characters, adapted from Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script, used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are ...
as ).
People
People with this surname include:
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Situ Qiao (; 1902–1958), Chinese oil painter
*
Situ Huimin (; 1910–1987), Chinese film director
*
Situ Guong (; 1911–?), Chinese Olympic long jumper
*
Sha Fei (birth name Situ Chuan ; 1912–1950), Chinese war photographer
*
Szeto Wai (; 1913–1991), Hong Kong engineer and architect
*
Szeto Wah
Szeto Wah (; 28 February 1931 – 2 January 2011) was a Hong Kong democracy activist and politician. He was the founding chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, the Hong Kong Professional Teac ...
(; 1931–2011), Hong Kong politician
*
Dixon Seeto (; 1951–2019), Fijian businessman
*
Da-Hong Seetoo (; born 1960), Chinese-born American recording engineer and violinist
*
KF Seetoh (; born 1962), Singaporean food critic
*
Sitoh Yih Pin (; born 1963), Singaporean politician
*
Jessica Soho (born 1964), Filipino journalist and television presenter
*
Antony Szeto
Antony Szeto (司徒永華), (born 9 December 1964) is a film director and martial artist.
Early life and education
Szeto was born in Sydney, Australia. He studied martial arts at Beijing Sport University and ended up representing Australia ...
(; born 1964), Australian director, martial artist, actor, stunt coordinator
*
Szeto Kam-Yuen (; 1964–2012), Hong Kong screenwriter
*
Andy Seto (; born 1969), Hong Kong comic artist
*
Carwai Seto (; born 1973), Canadian swimmer who represented Taiwan at the 1988 Summer Olympics
*
Szeto Man Chun (; born 1975), Hong Kong football manager
*
Hayden Szeto (; born 1985), Canadian television actor
*
Nikki SooHoo
Nichole "Nikki" SooHoo (Chinese: 司徒少英; born August 20, 1988) is a Chinese American actress. She is best known for her roles as Holly in '' The Lovely Bones'' and as Wei Wei in ''Stick It'.''
Early life
SooHoo attended Orange Count ...
(; born 1988), American television actress
*
Brandon Soo Hoo
Brandon Soo Hoo (born November 2, 1995) is an American actor and martial artist. He is known for playing Tran in the 2008 film ''Tropic Thunder'' and for his series regular role on the Cartoon Network sketch comedy series '' Incredible Crew''. Soo ...
(born 1995), American television actor
*
Karen Seto (), American geographer
References
Further reading
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Individual Chinese surnames