姓
Meaning
- family name; surname
- to be surnamed ...
Example sentence
你姓什么？
What is your last name?
The character 姓
姓 is 女, woman, beside 生 — the family name, traced in its oldest layer through the mother. 我姓王 uses it as a verb, 姓名 is the full name, and 老百姓, the hundred surnames, is everybody.