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Shared Strategies for Memorizing Chinese Characters - 汉字奇思妙想

姓

August 1, 2019 by Jing Chai 6 Comments

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姓 女 female family name

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  1. Tu Quynh Vuu says

    September 20, 2022 at 9:23 pm

    The left character is female and the right is similar to character of king except it has a head and arm. So a woman and a king together represents a family, which is family name.

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  2. Dinobi Ibegbu says

    September 13, 2022 at 12:45 am

    the character combination of female and ‘to give birth/to give life’ meaning family name, makes me think of how after a woman gives birth, the first name their child has is the family name before they are giving a personal name.

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  3. Emir Lise says

    September 15, 2021 at 10:19 am

    The right character reminds me of a inverted tree, a family tree. With the female character, it resonates to a female which needs to know her roots, which is the family name.

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  4. Jade Spidel says

    September 15, 2021 at 8:46 am

    the second part of this character means “born,” so that it can literally translate to female born. One receives a surname after being born out of a female

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  5. Gloria Tsang says

    September 22, 2020 at 1:55 pm

    girls should be dedicated to their family, and that makes me thing of the family name, or “to be surnamed””

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  6. Pedro Petcov Neto says

    September 20, 2020 at 2:41 am

    I remember this symbol by realizing that it looks like a women (On the left) pointing to a family tree (right). Pointing to family tree = family name.

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