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Words with 姓

Kanji 姓, meaning surname, appears in 51 Japanese vocabulary entries.

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しょう

hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing)

同姓

どうせい

same surname

百姓

ひゃくしょう

farming

姓名

せいめい

(full) name

種姓

しゅしょう

provenance

旧姓

きゅうせい

one's original family name

お百姓さん

おひゃくしょうさん

farmer

どん百姓

どんびゃくしょう

dirt-poor farmer

ど百姓

どびゃくしょう

dirt-poor farmer

易姓革命

えきせいかくめい

revolution (change of dynasty) decreed by Heaven when the incumbent emperor is found lacking in moral virtue (old Chinese political thought)

異姓

いせい

different surname

下姓

げしょう

person of humble birth

改姓

かいせい

change of one's family name

外姓

がいせい

mother's family name

漢姓

かんせい

Chinese surname

元姓

げんせい

former surname

現姓

げんせい

one's current family name

四種姓

ししゅせい

varna (each of India's four castes)

四姓

しせい

the four great families of the age (esp. the Minamoto clan, the Taira clan, the Fujiwara clan and the Tachibana clan)

氏姓制度

しせいせいど

uji-kabane system

氏素姓

うじすじょう

(a person's) family background

小姓

こしょう

(noble's) page

小百姓

こびゃくしょう

peasant

新姓

しんせい

new surname (after marrying, etc.)

新撰姓氏録

しんせんしょうじろく

Shinsen Shouji Roku (Newly Compiled Record of Clan Names; 815 CE)

人民

おおみたから

imperial subjects

水呑み百姓

みずのみびゃくしょう

poor peasant

かばね

clan

姓が変わる

せいがかわる

to assume a new surname

姓氏

せいし

full name

姓名判断

せいめいはんだん

fortunetelling based on writing or pronunciation of one's name

姓名不詳

せいめいふしょう

unidentified

選択的夫婦別姓

せんたくてきふうふべっせい

(system of) optional separate surnames for married couples

俗姓

ぞくしょう

secular surname (of a priest)

他姓

たせい

another surname

中小姓

ちゅうごしょう

low class samurai, who guarded the shogun on outings (Edo period)

同姓同名

どうせいどうめい

(having) same family and personal name

八色の姓

はっしきのかばね

eight hereditary titles (designated by Emperor Tenmu in 684 CE: Mahito, Asomi, Sukune, Imiki, Michinoshi, Omi, Muraji, Inagi)

八姓

はっせい

eight hereditary titles (designated by Emperor Tenmu in 684 CE: Mahito, Asomi, Sukune, Imiki, Michinoshi, Omi, Muraji, Inagi)

被官百姓

ひかんびゃくしょう

serf

百姓

ひゃくせい

the common people

百姓一揆

ひゃくしょういっき

peasant uprising (Edo period)

百姓家

ひゃくしょうや

farmer's home

百姓読み

ひゃくしょうよみ

nonstandard reading of a kanji

夫婦別姓

ふうふべっせい

use of separate surnames by a married couple

復姓

ふくせい

reverting to one's original family name

複姓

ふくせい

family name consisting of two combined names (in ancient Japan)

別姓

べっせい

different surname

別姓婚

べっせいこん

marriage in which neither person takes the other's surname

本姓

ほんせい

real or original name

本百姓

ほんびゃくしょう

freeholding farmer