Hsu

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proper noun

A surname.

Less commonScrabble 6

Meanings

proper nounHsu (plural Hsus)

plural Hsus · alternative also Hsü · alternative Sheu · alternative Syu · alternative Hanyu Pinyin Xu

  1. A surname.

    In 1953, station director Cheng Tsung-yuan used timber from trees blown down in high winds to construct a hexagonal hall that would represent Liouguei. It was named Tsu Ching Hall, after Hsu Ching-chong, first agriculture director of the Taiwanese provincial government.

    2011 December 29, “Shanping Forest Ecological Science Park”, in Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2023
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    Historian Hsu Cho-yun (許倬雲), a correspondence research fellow at Academia Sinica's Institute of History and Philology, has died in the United States at 94, Taiwan's top research institution confirmed in a statement Monday. Hsu's death Sunday (U.S. time) was also confirmed by the Tang Prize Foundation in Taipei, which in 2024 honored the historian as a laureate in Sinology.

    2025 August 4, Chen Ching-fang, Kay Liu, “Historian Hsu Cho-yun dies at 94”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2025, Culture

Origin

Borrowed from Mandarin 許/许 (Xǔ) or 徐 (Xú) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsü.

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APA

Hsu. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hsu

MLA

“Hsu.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hsu. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Hsu,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hsu.

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