Kanji
N2 8 strokes Grade 8 freq #1628

surname

On'yomi (音読み)

Radical (部首)

woman onna

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

surname; family name
one's original family name; maiden name
same surname
farmer; peasant
(full) name; family name and given name
Chinese surname; Chinese family name
unidentified; name unknown
former surname; original surname
varna (each of India's four castes)
hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing); kabane

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

farmer
eight hereditary titles (designated by Emperor Tenmu in 684 CE: Mahito, Ason, Sukune, Imiki, Michinoshi, Omi, Muraji, Inagi)
unorthodox reading of kanji (in compounds)
dirt-poor farmer

Example sentences

Ikeda is my last name, and Kazuko is my first name.

These days the number of women who don't want to change their family names even after they get married is increasing.

His parents were farmers.

The farmers must be happy to hear that.