氏 (shì)
clan name; family name; used in Celsius (攝氏)
How 氏 is written
- Strokes
- 4
- Traditional
- 氏
- Simplified
- 氏 (unchanged)
氏 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- shì
- clan name; maiden name
- zhī
- see 月氏[Yue4 zhi1] and 閼氏|阏氏[yan1 zhi1]
Common words using 氏
- 人氏 rénshì
- native; person from a particular place
- 姓氏 xìngshì
- family name
- 攝氏 shèshì
- Celsius; centigrade
- 攝氏度 shèshìdù
- degrees centigrade
- 氏族 shìzú
- clan
- 無名氏 wúmíngshì
- anonymous (e.g. author, donor etc)
- 盧氏 lúshì
- Lushi county in Sanmenxia 三門峽|三门峡[San1 men2 xia2], Henan
- 羅氏 luóshì
- Roche; F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd
- 華氏 huáshì
- Fahrenheit
- 里氏 lǐshì
- Richter (scale)
- 元氏 yuánshì
- Yuanshi county in Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1], Hebei
- 呂氏春秋 lǚshìchūnqiū
- lit “Mr Lü's Spring and Autumn (Annals)”, compendium of the philosophies of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家|诸子百家[zhu1 zi3 bai3 jia1], compiled around 239 BC under the patronage of Qin Dynasty 秦代[Qin2 Dai4] Chancellor Lü Buwei.呂不韋|吕不韦[Lu:3 Bu4 wei2]
氏 in a sentence
今天氣溫高達攝氏三十五度，熱死人了。
Jīntiān qìwēn gāodá Shèshì sānshíwǔ dù, rè sǐ rén le.
“Today's temperature reached 35 degrees Celsius; it's incredibly hot.”
How common is 氏?
氏 is the 1,498th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 94.6% of all running text.
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