姓 氏

xìngshì

nounHSK 7-9

“Family name” in Chinese is 姓氏 (xìngshì).

Meaning

family name

Example

林字作为中国姓氏，就读Lín；作为日本姓氏，则读Hayashi。

When used as a Chinese surname, the character 林 is pronounced Lín; as a Japanese surname, it is read Hayashi.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

xìngHSK 28 strokesfamily name; surname shìHSK 7-94 strokesfamily name; surname (as in 王氏[Wang2 shi4] "the Wang clan")

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Not to be confused with: 形势 (xíngshì, circumstances) · 形式 (xíngshì, outer appearance) · 行使 (xíngshǐ, to exercise (a right etc)) · 行驶 (xíngshǐ, to travel along a route (of vehicles etc))