氏
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(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
4 strokes
Dict coverage rank #631 U+6C0F
How 氏 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A person bowing down
How to remember it
family name · Heisig RSH #1371
eyedropper + plow + 一 one + fishhook
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 氏 as their sound component
These characters all use 氏 (shì) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 氏 sound component | shì | clan, family; maiden name |
| 纸 | zhǐ | paper |
| 舐 | shì | to lick, to lap up |
| 哌 | pài | used in transliterations |
| 祇 | qí | only, just, simply; one of a pair; an earth god |
| 芪 | qí | celery |
| 衹 | qí | only, merely, just |
Words containing 氏
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 马氏体 | mǎ shì tǐ | (metallurgy) martensite; martensitic |
| 无名氏 | wú míng shì | anonymous person |
| 亚氏保加 | Yà shì bǎo jiā | see 阿斯佩爾格爾|阿斯佩尔格尔[A1 si1 pei4 er3 ge2 er3] |
| 马氏管 | Mǎ shì guǎn | Malpighian tubule system (in the insect digestive tract etc) |
| 家乐氏 | Jiā lè shì | Kellogg's (US food manufacturing company) |
| 源氏物语 | Yuán shì Wù yǔ | The Tale of Genji, classic Japanese novel by Murasaki Shikibu (c. 11th century) |
| 大月氏 | Dà Yuè zhī | the Greater Yuezhi, a branch of the Yuezhi 月氏[Yue4 zhi1] people of central Asia during the… |
| 立氏立克次体 | lì shì lì kè cì tǐ | Rickettsia rickettsii |
| 普氏立克次体 | pǔ shì lì kè cì tǐ | Rickettsia prowazekii |
| 格兰氏阴性 | gé lán shì yīn xìng | Gram negative (of bacteria); also written 革蘭氏陰性|革兰氏阴性 |
| 克雅氏病 | kè yǎ shì bìng | Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) |
| 人氏 | rén shì | native; person from a particular place |
| 元氏县 | Yuán shì Xiàn | Yuanshi, a county in Shijiazhuang City 石家莊市|石家庄市[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1 Shi4], Hebei |
| 金氏 | Jīn shì | Guinness (name) (Tw) |
| 李斯特氏菌 | Lǐ sī tè shì jūn | listeria bacillus |
| 里氏 | Lǐ shì | (seismology) Richter (scale) |
| 华氏度 | Huá shì dù | °F (degrees Fahrenheit) |
| 巴氏 | Bā shì | Pasteur |
| 亚伯氏症 | Yà bó shì zhèng | Apert syndrome |
| 罗氏 | Luó shì | Roche, a Swiss multinational healthcare company that focuses on pharmaceuticals and diagno… |