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HSK
family name
HSK 7-9
Celsius / centigrade
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *氏* | 氏* | *氏
(bound form) family name; surname (as in 王氏 "the Wang clan") / (bound form) maiden name; née (as in 李王氏 "Mrs. Li, née Wang") / (bound form) honorific suffix added to the surname or full name of a notable person, esp. historical or scholarly figures
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *氏* | 氏* | *氏
used in 月氏 / used in 閼氏|阏氏
Weishi county in Kaifeng 開封|开封, Henan
Pasteur
Lushi county in Sanmenxia 三門峽|三门峡, Henan
Yuanshi county in Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄, Hebei
Fahrenheit
Heinz (name) / Heinz, US food processing company
native / person from a particular place
(seismology) Richter (scale)
ancient people of central Asia during the Han dynasty
formal wife of a Xiongnu chief during the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
Pond's (brand of skin care products)
Roche, a Swiss multinational healthcare company that focuses on pharmaceuticals and diagnostics
Guinness (name) (Tw)
family tree / ancestral records
Fuxi or Fu Hsi, legendary Chinese emperor 2852-2738 BC, mythical creator of fishing, trapping, and writing
a branch of the Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑 nomadic people
anonymous person
(Tw) (seismology) Richter (scale)
Suirenshi, legendary inventor of fire
Euclid / abbr. for 歐幾里得|欧几里得
the Greater Yuezhi, a branch of the Yuezhi 月氏 people of central Asia during the Han dynasty
one of the five legendary emperors, also called 嚳|喾
Shennong or Farmer God (c. 2000 BC), first of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝 and creator of agriculture in China / followers or clan of Shennong 神農|神农
alternative name for the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝
Kellogg's (US food manufacturing company)
Nüwa (creator of humans in Chinese mythology)
Charles Messier (1730-1817), French astronomer who catalogued nebulas and galaxies
Pangu (creator of the universe in Chinese mythology)
another name for 伏羲, consort of 女媧|女娲
Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski 普爾熱瓦爾斯基|普尔热瓦尔斯基 (1839-1888), Russian explorer who made four expeditions to Central Asian from 1870
the Korean Yi or Lee Dynasty (1392-1910)
Victorinox (knife manufacturer)
Mr Gram / Dr. Hans Christian Jaochim Gram (1953-1938), Danish doctor and inventor of the Gram stain 革蘭氏染色法|革兰氏染色法
Ponzi (name) / Pond's (brand of skin care products), also written 旁氏


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