姓
Meanings · seng3
- family name
- surname Mandarin classifier: 个
- to be surnamed
- a clan name
- people
- ordinary folk
Meanings · sing3
- family name
- surname Mandarin classifier: 个
- to be surnamed
- a clan name
- people
- ordinary folk
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Reading difference from Unihan
- 姓 has the reading seng3 here; Unihan’s citation reading is sing3. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 姓 seng3 as its own entry.
Computed by zimai: each syllable of the CC-Canto word reading is compared with Unihan 17.0.0 kCantonese for its character. The comparison does not say why a reading differs (a changed tone, 變音, a reading tied to one meaning, or a source variant).
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 姓 xìng CC-CEDICT · Mandarinfamily name; surname; to be surnamed ...
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: xing4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 4 senses · 2 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
seng3 · sing3
Cantonese word readings for 姓. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- surname; family name; clan name
- to have the surname of
- (figurative, often officialese) to belong to; to be classified as
- a surname
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