姓

Translingual

Etymology

Radical: 女 (woman) + 生 (born) ("the woman we were borne from gives us our name")

Han character

姓 (radical 38 女+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 女竹手一 (VHQM), four-corner 4541₀, composition ⿰女生)

1. one's family name
2. clan, people

References

• KangXi: page 259, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6178
• Dae Jaweon: page 524, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1037, character 12
• Unihan data for U+59D3

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Cantonese

Hanzi

姓 (Yale sing3)

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Japanese

Kanji

姓 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: せい (sei), しょう (shō)
• Kun: かばね (kabane)

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Korean

Hanja

姓 (hangeul 성, revised seong, McCune-Reischauer sŏng)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

• audio

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Hanzi

姓 (pinyin xìng (xing4), Wade-Giles hsing⁴)

Compounds

• 姓名
• 姓氏

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Vietnamese

Han character

姓 (tính)