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Zu Tung name meaning

  • 祖童ancestor; child
  • 祖彤ancestor; red
Letters
6
Syllables
2
First letter
Z
Romanization
Hakka
Character options
2
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters祖童祖彤
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records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Zu Tung

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Chinese Names: Z

Zu Tung is a Chinese girl's name from Hakka or Mandarin; written 祖童, it means 'ancestor; child'.

Chinese characters for Zu Tung

This spelling is common in Hakka romanization.

  • 祖童

    ancestor; child

    Hakka chú thùng (HRS zuˊ tung) / Mandarin zǔ tóng

    attested

  • 祖彤

    ancestor; red

    Hakka chú thùng (HRS zuˊ tung) / Mandarin zǔ tóng

One spelling can stand for several characters. The meaning of a name depends on the characters the family chose; characters marked “attested” are found in records of real names.

About the name Zu Tung

Zu Tung matches the Hakka sounds chú thùng (HRS zuˊ tung); Tung is also an older spelling of Mandarin tóng. The characters 祖童 are recorded for this spelling in public data: 祖 means ancestor and 童 means child. Tung can also be written 彤 (red), so the meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♀ Girl
RomanizationHakka
PartsZu + Tung
First letterChinese Names starting with Z

Character pages

Each page shows the character’s recorded meanings, dialect readings and every Malaysian spelling.

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: 祖 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 祖 · mdbg.net · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 童 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 童 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 彤 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 彤 · mdbg.net · meaning

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