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姓 kanji
surname
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Secondary school
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Kun readings
NoneWords with 姓
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N2姓Popularsurname; family name; hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing)
- N1姓名Popular(full) name; family name and given name
- —旧姓Popularone's original family name; maiden name
- —同姓Popularsame surname
- —異姓different surname; different family name
- —改姓change of one's family name; changed family name
- —姓氏full name; family name; clan
- —他姓another surname
- —百姓the common people
- —本姓real or original name
- —外姓mother's family name
- —四姓the four Hindu castes; the four great families of the Heian period (esp. the Minamoto clan, the Taira clan, the Fujiwara clan and the Tachibana clan)
- —元姓former surname; original surname
- —八姓eight hereditary titles (designated by Emperor Tenmu in 684 CE: Mahito, Ason, Sukune, Imiki, Michinoshi, Omi, Muraji, Inagi)
- —現姓one's current family name; woman's family name after she married
- —漢姓Chinese surname; Chinese family name
- —別姓different surname; married couple maintaining separate surnames
- —複姓two-character surname (in China); compound surname; family name consisting of two combined names (in ancient Japan)
- —復姓reverting to one's original family name; reverting to one's maiden name
- —新姓new surname (after marrying, etc.)