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名字

名字

Chinese

name; (measure word for persons); place (e.g. among winners)
 
letter; symbol; character; word
simp. and trad.
(名字) 		名 字

Noun

名字

  1. full name
    你叫什麼名字？ / 你叫什么名字？  ―  Nǐ jiào shénme míngzi?  ―  What's your name?
  2. given name

Synonyms

  • (given name): 名 (míng)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
名 字
みょう
Grade: 1 		じ
Grade: 1
on'yomi

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

名字 ‎(hiragana みょうじ, romaji myōji)

  1. surname, family name

References

  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.

Korean

Hanja in this term
名 字

Noun

名字 • ‎(myeongja) ‎(hangeul 명자)

  1. Hanja form? of 명자, “the characters of one´s name, fame”.

Etymology

Combination of 名 (míng, “given name”) and 字 (zì, “courtesy name, given to an individual at adulthood”). Originally two different types of names in ancient China, in modern Chinese the two characters form a single word.

Pronunciation

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