{{Infobox surname | name = Duanmu (端木) | image = | image_size = | caption = | pronunciation = Duānmù (Mandarin) | language = Chinese | languageorigin = Old Chinese | origin = | derivation = | meaning = | variant = Tuan-mu, Twanmoh | cognate = | derivative = | seealso = | family = }} '''Duanmu''' is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese compound surname written {{linktext|端木}} in Chinese characters. It is romanized as '''Tuan-mu''' in Wade–Giles. Duanmu is listed 447th in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.guoxue.com/gxrm/gx_bjx.htm |title=百家姓 |trans-title=Hundred Family Surnames |publisher=Guoxue |language=Chinese |accessdate=2014-11-03}}</ref> It is not among the 300 most common surnames in modern China.<ref name=top300>{{cite web |url=http://www.taiwan.cn/zppd/XSDG/200901/t20090106_811068.htm |script-title=zh:中国最新300大姓排名（2008）|trans-title=300 most common surnames in China (2008) |publisher=Taiwan.cn |language=Chinese |date=2009-01-06 |accessdate=2014-11-03}}</ref>
==Notable people== * Duanmu Ci or Zigong (520–456 BC), disciple of Confucius, one of the Twelve Philosophers * Duanmu Shu (端木叔), Warring States period descendant of Duanmu Ci, known for his wealth and philanthropy * Duan Fuchu or Duanmu Fuchu (端復初; 1321–1373), Ming dynasty Minister of Justice * Duanmu Guohu (端木國瑚; 1773–1837), Qing dynasty official and scholar of the ''I Ching'' * Duanmu Jie (端木傑; 1897–1972), Republic of China general and Minister of Transportation * Joseph K. Twanmoh (端木愷 {{small|''Duanmu Kai''}}, 1903–1987), Republic of China politician, president of Soochow University (Taiwan) * Duanmu Hongliang (1912–1996), novelist * Lucy Duanmu (端木露西; 1912–1998), writer, wife of Chu Anping * Duanmu Zheng (端木正; 1920–2006), Vice President of the Supreme People's Court of the PRC, son of Duanmu Jie * Duanmu Mei (端木美), historian, daughter of Duanmu Zheng * Duanmu San (端木三), professor of linguistics, University of Michigan<ref>{{cite web |last1=Duanmu |first1=San |title=Duanmu's home page |url=http://www-personal.umich.edu/~duanmu/ |website=University of Michigan |accessdate=17 January 2019}}</ref>
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