氏(shì): (bound form) family name

HSK 7-94 strokes

Readingsshìzhī

(bound form) family name

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Character informationHSK 7-9

Pinyin: shì / zhī
Meaning: (bound form) family name; surname (as in 王氏[Wang2 shi4] "the Wang clan"); (bound form) maiden name; née (as in 李王氏[Li3 Wang2 shi4] "Mrs. Li, née Wang"); (bound form) honorific suffix added to the surname or full name of a notable person, esp. historical or scholarly figures
Strokes: 4
HSK level: HSK 7-9
Traditional: Same

Origin & structureWhere 氏 comes from

Ideograph

A person bowing down

A combination of parts whose meanings add up to the whole.

Words with 氏

xìng姓shì氏

HSK 7-9

family name

shè摄shì氏dù度

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°C (degrees Celsius)

hēng亨shì氏

Heinz (name); Heinz, US food processing company

rén人shì氏

native; person from a particular place

yuán元shì氏

see 元氏县

shè摄shì氏

Celsius; centigrade

páng旁shì氏

Pond's (brand of skin care products)

pǔ普shì氏

Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski 普爾熱瓦爾斯基|普尔热瓦尔斯基 (1839-1888), Russian explorer who made …

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