复姓
fù xìng
Pinyin

Definition

复姓
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fù xìng
  1. two-character surname such as 司馬|司马 or 諸葛|诸葛

Character Decomposition

Related Words (8)

xìng
  1. 1 family name
  2. 2 surname
  3. 3 CL:個|个[gè]
  4. 4 to be surnamed
bǎi xìng
  1. 1 common people
xìng míng
  1. 1 surname and given name
  2. 2 full name
lǎo bǎi xìng
  1. 1 ordinary people
  2. 2 the "person in the street"
  3. 3 CL:個|个[gè]
xìng shì
  1. 1 family name
píng tóu bǎi xìng
  1. 1 common people
zhǒng xìng
  1. 1 caste (traditional Indian social division)
guì xìng
  1. 1 what is your surname?
  2. 2 (May I ask) your surname?

Idioms (0)

Sample Sentences

对,大多数的名字都是这样。除了欧阳、司马、诸葛等复姓外,姓通常是一个字,名则可以是一个字或者两个字,都比较常见。不过随着中国的人口的增加,两个字的名字实在是太容易重名了。起三个字的选择余地比较大,比较不容易重名。
duì ,dàduōshù de míngzi dōu shì zhèyàng 。chúle Ōuyáng 、Sīmǎ 、Zhūgé děng fùxìng wài ,xìng tōngcháng shì yī ge zì ,míng zé kěyǐ shì yī ge zì huòzhě liǎng ge zì ,dōu bǐjiào chángjiàn 。bùguò suízhe Zhōngguó de rénkǒu de zēngjiā ,liǎng ge zì de míngzi shízài shì tài róngyì chóngmíng le 。qǐ sān ge zì de xuǎnzé yúdì bǐjiào dà ,bǐjiào bù róngyì chóngmíng 。
Right. The majority of names are like that. Except for double surnames like Ouyang, Sima and Zhuge, most surnames are a single character. Names can be one or two characters. There's a lot of flexibility in choosing three-character names, so it's pretty rare to repeat names.
是吗?对此我倒是没有仔细研究过。我只知道中国的名字以两个字和三个字的居多,还有极少数的复姓组成的四个字的名字。
shì ma ?duìcǐ wǒ dàoshì méiyǒu zǐxì yánjiū guo 。wǒ zhǐ zhīdào Zhōngguó de míngzi yǐ liǎng ge zì hé sān ge zì de jūduō ,hái yǒu jí shǎoshù de fùxìng zǔchéng de sì ge zì de míngzi 。
Really? I've never really looked into it that carefully. I just know that most Chinese names have two or three characters. There are also a very small number of double surnames that have four characters.