Lü (surname)

Lǚ 吕/呂
Pronunciationlǚ (Mandarin)
leui (Cantonese)
Language(s)Chinese
Origin
Language(s)Old Chinese
Word/nameLü (state)
Other names
Variant form(s)Lữ (Vietnamese), Lu, Lv, Lyu, Lui
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Wade–Giles3
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingLeoi5

(Mandarin: [ly˨˩˦]) is the pinyin (Lǚ with the tone diacritic) and Wade–Giles romanisation of a Chinese surname, most commonly (simplified Chinese) and (traditional Chinese).