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Updated January 23, 2020

Family name origins & meanings

  • Chinese : from the name of an ancestor, Lü Shang, who lived around the beginning of the Zhou dynasty (1122–221 bc).
  • Chinese : from the name of the Shang dynasty (1766–1122 bc).

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