• Radical Number 38: 女+5 strokes

• Stroke number: 8

• Stroke order:

• Four-Corner System: 4541₀

• Cangjie input: 女竹手一 (VHQM)

• Graphical Significance and Origin: *:Radical: 女 + 生

  女

  生

• Common Meaning
  1. one's family name
  2. clan, people

Chinese Hanzi

• Romanizations
  • Mandarin
    • Pinyin: xìng (xing4)
    • Wade-Giles: hsing⁴
    • Yale:
  • Cantonese
    • Jyutping:
    • Penkyamp:
    • Yale: sing3

Compounds

• 姓名
• 姓氏

• Other info:

Japanese Kanji

• Readings
  • On: せい (sei), しょう (shō)
  • Kun: かばね (kabane)

• Other info:

Korean Hanja

• Pronunciation: 성

• Romanization
  • The 2000 South Korean Revised: seong
  • McCune-Reischauer: sŏng

Dictionary Information

• KangXi: 0259.050
• Morobashi: 06178
• Dae Jaweon: 0524.090
• Hanyu Da Zidian: 21037.120

Technical Information

• Unicode:
  • Hex: 59D3
  • Decimal: 22995
• Big5:
  • Hex: A96D
  • Decimal: 43373