氏
shìzhī HSK7

clan

氏 shì frequency
[honorific suffix] noun
Added after surnames to refer to a person, a family, or a school of thought; often used for historical figures, celebrities, or professionals.
clan noun
(bound form) clan; family; family name or lineage
née
Used after a woman's maiden name, or after her husband's surname and her maiden name, to address a married woman.
surname
a Chinese surname
[honorific]
(literary) added after kinship terms to show respect
氏 zhī
(bound form)
Used in archaic names for Central Asian ethnic groups or historical titles.

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,500th most common 71.7 per million
Movie subtitles
2,005th most common 19.1 per million appears in 8% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
8.61 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
20.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
4
Unicode
U+6C0F

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)