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姓, せい, しょう, そう
1. surname, family name
Only せい, See 姓・かばね・1
2. hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing)
あなたの姓はどう発音するのですか。
姓, かばね
1. hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing)
Archaism
2. clan
あなたの姓はどう発音するのですか。
百姓, ひゃくしょう
Takes suru, Sensitive
1. farmer, peasant, country bumpkin
2. farming
See 百姓・ひゃくせい
3. the common people
お百姓さんはそれを聞いて喜ぶに違いない。
四姓, しせい
1. the four great families of the age (esp. the Minamoto clan, the Taira clan, the Fujiwara clan and the Tachibana clan)
See ヴァルナ
2. varna (each of the four Hindu castes)
八姓, はっせい
See 八色の姓, Archaism, Obscure term
eight hereditary titles (designated by Emperor Tenmu in 684 CE: Mahito, Asomi, Sukune, Imiki, Michinoshi, Omi, Muraji, Inagi)
別姓, べっせい
1. different surname
See 夫婦別姓, Abbreviation
2. married couple maintaining separate surnames
改姓, かいせい
Takes suru
1. change of one's family name
2. changed family name
家名を嵯峨と改姓したのは明治３年でした。
氏姓制度, しせいせいど
See 氏・うじ・1, See 姓・かばね・1
uji-kabane system, system of clans and hereditary titles (of the Yamato court)
同姓同名, どうせいどうめい
May take 'no', yojijukugo
(having) same family and personal name
私は自分と同姓同名の女性を知っている。
易姓革命, えきせいかくめい
yojijukugo
revolution (change of dynasty) decreed by Heaven when the incumbent emperor is found lacking in moral virtue (old Chinese political thought)
八色の姓, 八色姓, やくさのかばね, はっしきのかばね
Archaism
eight hereditary titles (designated by Emperor Tenmu in 684 CE: Mahito, Asomi, Sukune, Imiki, Michinoshi, Omi, Muraji, Inagi)