Kanji1 / 8
姓 kanji
surname
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
セイショウ
Kun readings
NoneWords with 姓
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —四種姓varna (each of India's four castes)
- —別姓婚marriage in which neither person takes the other's surname
- —姓名判断fortunetelling based on writing or pronunciation of one's name
- —氏姓制度uji-kabane system; system of clans and hereditary titles (of the Yamato court)
- —夫婦別姓use of separate surnames by a married couple
- —同姓同名having the same family name and given name (as someone else)
- —易姓革命revolution (change of dynasty) decreed by Heaven when the incumbent emperor is found lacking in moral virtue (old Chinese political thought)
- —姓名不詳unidentified; name unknown
- —姓が変わるto assume a new surname
- —選択的夫婦別姓(system of) optional separate surnames for married couples
- —種姓birth; lineage; parentage; origin; identity; background; history; past; provenance; origin