氏
shìzhī HSK7

clan

氏 shì frequency
clan proper name
family name or clan

王氏家族在当地的商业领域享有极高的威望。

Wáng shì jiā​zú zài dāng​dì de shāng​yè lǐng​yù xiǎng​yǒu jí gāo de wēi​wàng.

The Wang family enjoys high prestige in the local business community.

honorific proper name
honorific suffix for notable historical or scholarly figures

传说神农氏亲自尝试百草，发明了原始的中医药。

chuán​shuō Shén​nóng shì qīn​zì cháng​shì bǎi​cǎo, fā​míng le yuán​shǐ de zhōng​yī​yào.

Legend has it that Shennong personally tasted various herbs and invented primitive Chinese medicine.

née proper name
maiden name used after a husband's surname

在旧社会，人们常称呼这位妇女为李王氏。

zài jiù shè​huì, rén​men cháng chēng​hu zhè wèi fù​nǚ wéi Lǐ Wáng shì.

In the old society, people often referred to this woman as Li-Wang Shi.

氏 zhī
Yanzhi noun
used in the title for the principal wife of a Chanyu (Xiongnu ruler)

王昭君入胡后被封为宁胡阏氏。

Wáng Zhāo​jūn rù hú hòu bèi fēng​wéi níng hú yān zhī.

After marrying into the Xiongnu, Wang Zhaojun was titled Ninghu Yanzhi.

Yuezhi proper name
used in the name of the ancient Central Asian nomadic Yuezhi people

汉武帝派遣张骞出使西域以寻找大月氏。

Hàn Wǔ​dì pài​qiǎn Zhāng Qiān chū​shǐ Xī​yù yǐ xún​zhǎo Dà Yuè​zhī.

Emperor Wu of Han dispatched Zhang Qian to the Western Regions to find the Da Yuezhi.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)