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氏shì族zú

  1. clan

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

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氏
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

(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

Pinyin
shì
Strokes
4
Frequency
27823 of 2500
Words starting with 氏Words ending in 氏Anywhere in a word
族
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

race, nationality, ethnicity, clan, by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族)

Pinyin
zú
Strokes
11
Frequency
10375 of 2500
Words starting with 族Words ending in 族Anywhere in a word