Chinese surname

Surname Ee

余 · 伊

Ee is a Chinese surname, a Hokkien spelling of 余 or a Hokkien and Teochew spelling of 伊.

Characters for the surname Ee

The spelling Ee is common in Hokkien and Teochew romanization.

余

I, me (literary); surname

Hokkien î / Mandarin yú
伊

this; that; he or she (literary); surname

Hokkien i / Teochew i1 / Mandarin yī

余 all spellings of yú 伊 all spellings of yī

Possible characters for Ee

The spelling Ee can stand for 2 characters. The spelling alone does not show which one a family uses.

Character	Mandarin reading · romanization of the spelling
余	yú · Hokkien
伊	yī · Hokkien · Teochew

Other spellings of the same character

Yi 余Mandarin (pinyin), Hakka
Eu 余Cantonese, Hakka
Yee 余Hokkien, Hakka

About the surname Ee

Ee is a Hokkien spelling of the surname 余 (Mandarin Yu), read î in Zhangzhou and Singapore Hokkien. Ee also matches the reading i of the surname 伊 (Mandarin Yi) in Hokkien and Teochew. The meaning depends on the character the family uses.

Sources

Wiktionary: 余 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
MDBG: 余 · mdbg.net · meaning
Wiktionary: 伊 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
MDBG: 伊 · mdbg.net · meaning

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Entry ID: mn02612 · Updated 2026-10-25 · Report a mistake