氏

Meaning

氏 centers on the concept of a family lineage or clan identity, from which the ideas of family name and surname naturally follow.

• 氏し
  N2

  Mr; Mrs; Ms; Miss

• 彼氏かれし
  N3

  boyfriend

• 氏名しめい
  N3

  (full) name; identity

• 同氏どうし

  the said person; he; she

• 源氏物語げんじものがたり

  The Tale of Genji (Heian-period classic)

• 氏族しぞく

  clan; family

• 両氏りょうし

  both persons

• 諸氏しょし

  (all of) you or them

• 某氏ぼうし

  a certain person; unnamed person; Mr. So-and-so; a certain someone who shall remain unnamed

• カ氏カし

  Fahrenheit

• 摂氏せっし
  N1

  Celsius; centigrade

• 杜氏とうじ

  chief brewer at a sake brewery

• 氏神うじがみ

  patron god; tutelar deity; guardian deity; local deity

• 氏子うじこ

  shrine parishioner

• 源氏名げんじな

  "professional name" used by hostesses and geisha

• 源氏げんじ

  Genji (the character in the Genji Monogatari)

• セ氏セし

  Celsius; centigrade

• 氏うじ
  N1

  family name; lineage; birth

• ジーキル博士とハイド氏ジーキルはかせとハイドし

  The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson)

• セ氏温度セしおんど

  degrees Celsius

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