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

Sixth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China The 2010 Chinese census, officially the Sixth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国第六次全国人口普查), was conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China wi ...

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 Huángfŭ (皇甫), alternatively pronounced Huangpu, is a Chinese compound surname. It's also called as ''Hwangbo'' (황보) in Korea and ''Hoàng Phủ'' in Vietnam. Origins During the early Zhou dynasty, ''huangfu'' was the name of military of ...

. 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

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. The

Hanyu Pinyin Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. ''Hanyu'' () literally means ' Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while ''pinyin'' literally ...

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: *

Situ Qiao Situ Qiao (; 1902 – 16 February 1958) was a Chinese oil painter and graphic artist. An important member of the Lingnan School of art, he was also known for his friendship with the influential writer Lu Xun. His most famous work is the 1940 pa ...

(; 1902–1958), Chinese oil painter *

Situ Huimin Situ Huimin (; 16 February 1910 – 4 April 1987), was a Chinese film director, screenwriter and actor, born in Kaiping, Guangdong. He joined the Communist Youth League in 1925 and the Chinese Communist Party in 1927. The next year, he went t ...

(; 1910–1987), Chinese film director *

Situ Guong Situ Guong (born 26 September 1911, date of death unknown) was a Chinese athlete. He competed in the men's long jump and the men's triple jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympi ...

(; 1911–?), Chinese Olympic long jumper *

Sha Fei Sha Fei (; May 5, 1912 – March 4, 1950) was a Chinese photojournalist and war photographer best known for his work with the Chinese Communist Party during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45). Born Situ Chuan (司徒传), he took the pseud ...

(birth name Situ Chuan ; 1912–1950), Chinese war photographer *

Szeto Wai Szeto Wai, CBE, JP (; 10 April 1913 – 24 July 1991) was a Hong Kong engineer and architect. He was responsible for the design and construction of many buildings of the Chinese University of Hong Kong when he was the university architect from ...

(; 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 Dixon Raphael Seeto (; 14 July 1951 – 19 July 2019) was a Fijian businessman and political leader of Chinese descent. He was President of the Fiji Islands Hotel and Tourism Association and of the Chinese Association of Fiji. In June 2006 he ...

(; 1951–2019), Fijian businessman *

Da-Hong Seetoo Da-Hong Seetoo (; born September 29, 1960) is a classical record producer, recording engineer, and Violinist. He has worked for the German classical record label, Deutsche Grammophon, and has recorded artists such as the Emerson String Quartet, D ...

(; born 1960), Chinese-born American recording engineer and violinist *

KF Seetoh Seetoh Kok Fye (born 1962), better known as KF Seetoh, is a Singaporean food critic and photographer. The fourth of five children, Seetoh attended St. Joseph's Institution and the Baharuddin Vocational Institute. Beginning in 1983, he worked as a ...

(; born 1962), Singaporean food critic *

Sitoh Yih Pin Sitoh Yih Pin ( zh, s=司徒宇斌, p=Sītú Yǔbīn; born 2 December 1963) is a Singaporean retired politician. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) representing Potong Pasir SMC sin ...

(; born 1963), Singaporean politician *

Jessica Soho Maria Jessica Aspiras Soho (; born March 27, 1964) is a Filipino broadcast journalist affiliated with GMA Network. She is the host of the news magazine program ''Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho'' on GMA, and was the news anchor for '' State of the Na ...

(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 Andy Seto (; born 3 June 1969) is a comic artist who specialises in martial-arts based stories. Biography Seto's works include his main series, '' Cyber Weapon Z''. He has also drawn a graphic novel adaptation of the earlier ''Crane-Iron Seri ...

(; born 1969), Hong Kong comic artist *

Carwai Seto Carwai Seto (born 2 April 1973) is a Canadian breaststroke, freestyle and medley swimmer who represented Taiwan in international competition. She competed in five events at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Swimming Seto was born and raised in Halifa ...

(; born 1973), Canadian swimmer who represented Taiwan at the 1988 Summer Olympics * Szeto Man Chun (; born 1975), Hong Kong football manager *

Hayden Szeto Hayden Chun Hay Szeto (born September 11, 1985) is a Canadian actor, known for his role as Erwin Kim in the comedy-drama film ''The Edge of Seventeen'' (2016). In 2017, he portrayed Ken Luang in the NBC comedy series ''The Good Place''. Early li ...

(; 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

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