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姓 — family name; surname

family name; surname; to be surnamed ...

Pinyin
xìng
Strokes
8
HSK level
HSK 2
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 姓: 8 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

姓 — 8 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 姓 in the HSK syllabus: 5

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 姓xìngfamily name; surname; to be surnamed ...HSK 2
  2. 姓名xìngmíng—HSK 2
  3. 贵姓guìxìngwhat is your surname?; your surname?HSK 5
  4. 老百姓lǎobǎixìngordinary people; the "person in the street"HSK 5
  5. 姓氏xìngshìfamily nameHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.