Meanings
plural Hsus · alternative also Hsü · alternative Sheu · alternative Syu · alternative Hanyu Pinyin Xu
- 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 20231 more example
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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Hsu. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hsu
“Hsu.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hsu. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Hsu,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hsu.
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