姓名

Chinese

		surname; family name; name	name; fame; to describe name; fame; to describe; place
trad. (姓名)		姓	名
simp. #(姓名)		姓	名
anagram		名姓

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xìngmíng

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄇㄧㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sing³ ming⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): siang-miàng
• Eastern Min (BUC): séng-mìng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sìⁿ-miâ / sèⁿ-miâ / sèng-bêng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sên³ mian⁵

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵shin-min₆

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xìngmíng
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄇㄧㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sìngmíng
    • Wade–Giles: hsing⁴-ming²
    • Yale: syìng-míng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shinqming
    • Palladius: синмин (sinmin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕiŋ⁵¹ miŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sing³ ming⁴
    • Yale: sing mìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sing³ ming⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: xing³ ming⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪŋ³³ mɪŋ²¹/
    • Homophones:

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• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: siang-miàng
    • Hakka Romanization System: xiang miang^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xiang⁴ miang²
    • Sinological IPA: /si̯aŋ⁵⁵ mi̯aŋ¹¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: séng-mìng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siŋ²¹³⁻⁵⁵ miŋ⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sìⁿ-miâ
    • Tâi-lô: sìnn-miâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sviemiaa
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sĩ²¹⁻⁵³ miã²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sĩ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ miã²⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sĩ¹¹⁻⁵³ miã²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sèⁿ-miâ
    • Tâi-lô: sènn-miâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sveamiaa
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sẽ²¹⁻⁴¹ miã²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sɛ̃²¹⁻⁵³ miã¹³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sèng-bêng
    • Tâi-lô: sìng-bîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: seangbeeng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siɪŋ²¹⁻⁵³ biɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɪŋ²¹⁻⁵³ biɪŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siɪŋ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ biɪŋ²⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sên³ mian⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sèⁿ miâⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sẽ²¹³⁻⁵⁵ mĩã⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵shin-min₆
    • MiniDict: shin^去 min^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²xin-min₃
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɕin³³ min⁴⁴/

Noun

姓名

1. full name (of a person)

Synonyms

• (literary or Min Nan, Hakka) 名姓 (míngxìng)
• 名字 (míngzi)
• 全名 (quánmíng)

Derived terms

• 姓名牌 (xìngmíngpái)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (姓名):

• → Japanese: 姓名(せいめい) (seimei); 姓名(しょうみょう) (shōmyō)
• → Korean: 성명(姓名) (seongmyeong)

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
姓	名
せい Grade: S	めい Grade: 1
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 姓名 (MC sjengH mjieng, literally “surname, clan name + name, given name”). The reading is kan'on, so likely a later borrowing. Compare modern Min Nan reading sèⁿ-miâ.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) せーめー [séꜜèmèè] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [se̞ːme̞ː]

Noun

姓(せい)名(めい) • (seimei) 

1. full name (of a person)

   Synonym: 氏名 (shimei)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
姓	名
しょう Grade: S	みょう Grade: 1
on'yomi

/siaumiau/ → /ɕjɔːmjɔː/ → /ɕoːmjoː/

From Middle Chinese 姓名 (MC sjengH mjieng, literally “surname, clan name + name, given name”). The goon, so likely the initial borrowing. Compare modern Hakka reading siang-miàng.

Rare in modern Japanese. Largely superseded by the seimei reading above.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) しょーみょー [shóꜜòmyòò] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɕo̞ːmʲo̞ː]

Noun

姓(しょう)名(みょう) • (shōmyō) ^{←しやうみやう (syaumyau)?}

1. (rare, possibly obsolete) full name (of a person)

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
姓	名
かばね Grade: S	な Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Compound of 姓 (kabane, “clan”) +‎ 名 (na, “name”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ka̠ba̠ne̞na̠]

Noun

姓(かばね)名(な) • (kabanena) 

1. (rare, possibly obsolete) clan name, surname

   Synonym: 姓 (kabane)

References

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

Korean

Hanja in this term
姓	名

Noun

姓名 • (seongmyeong) (hangeul 성명)

1. hanja form^? of 성명 (“full name (of a person)”)