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Huo (Chinese :; pinyin :Huò; Jyutping :Fok3) is a Chinese surname. It is pronounced as Fok in Cantonese.

During the Zhou dynasty, King Wu awarded land to his brother Shuchu (叔處) in "Huo" (modern Huozhou, Shanxi), and Shuchu's descendants adopted "Huo" as their family name.

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