姓名

Chinese

		surname; family name; name	name; fame; to describe name; fame; to describe; place
trad. (姓名)		姓	名
simp. #(姓名)		姓	名
anagram		名姓

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xìngmíng

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄇㄧㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sing³ ming⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): siang-miàng
• Eastern Min (BUC): séng-mìng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sìⁿ-miâ / sèⁿ-miâ / sèng-bêng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sên³ mian⁵

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵shin-min₆

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xìngmíng
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄇㄧㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sìngmíng
    • Wade–Giles: hsing⁴-ming²
    • Yale: syìng-míng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shinqming
    • Palladius: синмин (sinmin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕiŋ⁵¹ miŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sing³ ming⁴
    • Yale: sing mìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sing³ ming⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: xing³ ming⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪŋ³³ mɪŋ²¹/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 姓名 聖明 / 圣明

• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: siang-miàng
    • Hakka Romanization System: xiang miang^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xiang⁴ miang²
    • Sinological IPA: /si̯aŋ⁵⁵ mi̯aŋ¹¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: séng-mìng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siŋ²¹³⁻⁵⁵ miŋ⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sìⁿ-miâ
    • Tâi-lô: sìnn-miâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sviemiaa
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /sĩ²¹⁻⁵³ miã²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /sĩ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ miã²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /sĩ¹¹⁻⁵³ miã²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sèⁿ-miâ
    • Tâi-lô: sènn-miâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sveamiaa
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /sẽ²¹⁻⁴¹ miã²³/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /sɛ̃²¹⁻⁵³ miã¹³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sèng-bêng
    • Tâi-lô: sìng-bîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: seangbeeng
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /siɪŋ²¹⁻⁵³ biɪŋ²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɪŋ²¹⁻⁵³ biɪŋ¹³/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /siɪŋ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ biɪŋ²⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sên³ mian⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sèⁿ miâⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sẽ²¹³⁻⁵⁵ mĩã⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵shin-min₆
    • MiniDict: shin^去 min^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²xin-min₃
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɕin³³ min⁴⁴/

Noun

姓名

1. full name (of a person)

Synonyms

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• 全名 (quánmíng)
• 名姓 (míngxìng) (literary or Min Nan, Hakka)
• 名字 (míngzi)
• 名氏 (míngshì) (literary)

Dialectal synonyms of 姓名 (“full name (of a person); surname and given name”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		姓名, 全名
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	名兒姓兒, 名姓兒
	Taiwan	姓名, 全名
Cantonese	Hong Kong	姓名, 全名, 全朵
Southern Min	Xiamen	名姓
	Quanzhou	名姓
	Zhangzhou	名姓
	Tainan	名姓
Puxian Min	Putian	名姓
	Xianyou	名姓
Wu	Shanghai (Chongming)	名姓

Derived terms

• 姓名權 / 姓名权
• 姓名牌 (xìngmíngpái)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (姓名):

• → Japanese: 姓名(せいめい) (seimei); 姓名(しょうみょう) (shōmyō)
• → Korean: 성명(姓名) (seongmyeong)

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
姓	名
せい Grade: S	めい Grade: 1
kan'on

From Middle Chinese 姓名 (MC sjengH mjieng, literally “surname, clan name + name, given name”). The reading is kan'on, so likely a later borrowing. Compare Literary Hokkien 姓名 (sèng-bêng /⁠siɪŋ⁵³ biɪŋ²⁴⁠/).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [se̞ːme̞ː]
• (Tokyo) せーめー [séꜜèmèè] (Atamadaka – [1])

Noun

姓(せい)名(めい) • (seimei) 

1. full name (of a person)

   Synonym: 氏名 (shimei)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
姓	名
しょう Grade: S	みょう Grade: 1
goon

/siaumiau/ → /ɕjɔːmjɔː/ → /ɕoːmjoː/

From Middle Chinese 姓名 (MC sjengH mjieng, literally “surname, clan name + name, given name”). The goon, so likely the initial borrowing. Compare Hakka 姓名 (siang-miàng).

Rare in modern Japanese. Largely superseded by the seimei reading above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɕo̞ːmʲo̞ː]
• (Tokyo) しょーみょー [shóꜜòmyòò] (Atamadaka – [1])

Noun

姓(しょう)名(みょう) • (shōmyō) ^{←しやうみやう (syaumyau)?}

1. (rare, possibly obsolete) full name (of a person)

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
姓	名
かばね Grade: S	な Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Compound of 姓 (kabane, “clan”) +‎ 名 (na, “name”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ka̠ba̠ne̞na̠]

Noun

姓(かばね)名(な) • (kabanena) 

1. (rare, possibly obsolete) clan name, surname

   Synonym: 姓 (kabane)

References

• “姓名”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026
• Ineko Kondō, Fumi Takano, Mary E. Althaus, et al. (2002), Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, third edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
姓	名

Noun

姓名 • (seongmyeong) (hangeul 성명)

1. hanja form^? of 성명 (“full name (of a person)”)