Gu

English

Alternative forms

• Ku

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 古 (Gǔ), from Chinese.

Proper noun

Gu (countable and uncountable, plural Gus)

1. A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
   • 1985 July 22, “SHANXI INVESTIGATES ILLEGAL HOUSING CONSTRUCTION”, in China Report: Political, Sociological and Military Affairs‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 119:

     The comrades of Gu county said: From building a private house to sitting in jail, Xu Peng suffered the consequences of placing profit first as a result of his decadent bourgeois ideology.

   • [2012 October 25, Tom Phillips, “China’s Chernobyl Cleans Up Its Act”, in The Daily Beast‎^[2], archived from the original on 05 December 2020‎^[3]:

     Nearly a decade on from its humiliation, Linfen is even trying to reinvent itself as a green city. Yang claimed solar energy had been introduced in hotels, guesthouses and “many households”—including his own. Small wind farms are planned for Linfen’s Puxian and Guxian counties. Some former factory owners have even branched out into “green landscaping.” Last year a seven-mile-long park opened on the banks of the River Fen, which flows through Linfen.]

   • 2014, Benjamin Lillebrohus, Chinese Rural-Urban Difference in Opportunity of Obtaining Higher Education‎^[4], University of Lund, archived from the original on 17 August 2017, page 9:

     A good illustration of this difference can be found by pulling statistics from a single prefecture level city and compare the gross domestic production per capita for two of the prefecture’s counties; in the publication 2010 Línfén tǒngjì niánjiàn (2010 临汾统计年鉴) the GDP per capita in Yonghe County is 5,632 RMB in 2009 while the GDP per capita in Gu County amounts to 47,933 RMB the same year. The two counties are only 188km apart, and yet the citizens under Gu County’s administration enjoy an income approximately 8.5 times higher than those under Yonghe County’s. One of the reasons for Gu County’s relative well developed economy may be its location approximately 51km from Linfen City, while the distance from Linfen City to Yonghe County roughly amounts to 165 km.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 古 (zh) (Gǔ)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Etymology 2

From either Mandarin 谷 (Gǔ) or 古 (Gǔ), from Chinese.

Proper noun

Gu (plural Gus)

1. A surname from Chinese.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Gu is the 6183^rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 5532 individuals. Gu is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (94.78%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Gu”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 94.

Anagrams

• UG, Ug, ug

Chamorro

Letter

Gu

1. The tenth letter of the Chamorro alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) ʼ, A a, Å å, B b, Ch ch, D d, E e, F f, G g, Gu gu, H h, I i, K k, L l, M m, N n, Ñ ñ, Ng ng, O o, P p, R r, S s, T t, U u, Y y

Japanese

Romanization

Gu

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぐ

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Gu

1. (dialectal, Trøndelag, Eastern Norway) alternative form of Gud (“God”)
   • 1947, O.J.Rise, Oppdalsboka, bind 1:

     Ho Enøygd-Kari (...) såg ein gong ein tusskall som sat på ei låg (...) "Gakk i Guss namn no da", sa ho, og da gjekk han.

     The One-Eyed Kari (...) have seen once a Subterranean man sitting on a log (...) "Go now in God's name", she said, and then he went (away)

See also

• gu