# 氏 — Family Name

Frequency rank 277 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 際 (Occasion), less common than 可 (Possible).

- On’yomi: し
- Kun’yomi: うじ
- Radical: 氏 Clan (Kangxi 83)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX
- School grade: 4
- Strokes: 4

Forty cousins with the same heavy jaw pin you to the valley floor and burn the one word off their banner into your chest.

In words:

- 氏 し — family name,lineage,birth
- 氏名 しめい — full name,identity

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