HSK 3.0 Level 2 · Pronouns

姓名 xìngmíng “full name” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 姓名 means

  1. full name

How to say 姓名

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale姓xìng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale名míng2nd tone, rising

姓名 in a sentence

  1. 你的姓名是什么？

    Nǐ de xìngmíng shì shénme?

    What’s your full name?

    Sentence #827198 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 填上你的姓名和地址。

    Tián shàng nǐ de xìngmíng hé dìzhǐ.

    Fill in your name and address.

    Sentence #842442 from Tatoeba

  3. 我能问一下您的姓名和住址吗？

    Wǒ néng wèn yíxià nín de xìngmíng hé zhùzhǐ ma?

    May I ask your name and address?

    Sentence #334622 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 姓名 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 姓 (xìng) with each of its parts in a different colour
姓xìngfamily name; surname
  • 女woman · nǚMeaning part
  • 生life · shēngSound part

女 hints at the meaning (woman); 生 (shēng) hints at the sound. Compare it with xìng.

Memory aidA woman 女 and birth 生: the family name you are born into.

The character 名 (míng) with each of its parts in a different colour
名míngname
  • 夕evening · xī
  • 口mouth · kǒu

Memory aidEvening 夕 and a mouth 口: in the dark you call out your name.

How to write 姓名

姓 8 strokes · 名 6 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

姓名 (xìngmíng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 姓名 (xìngmíng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 姓名

Words with 姓

姓xìng · surname老百姓lǎobǎixìng · ordinary people

Words with 名

名字míngzi · name名míng · name有名yǒumíng · famous名单míngdān · list of names名人míngrén · celebrity报名bàomíng · to sign up著名zhùmíng · famous名片míngpiàn · (business) card名牌míngpái · famous brand名胜古迹míngshènggǔjì · famous sights and historic sites

More words: People, Body & Health

药yào · medicine男孩儿nánháir · boy女孩儿nǚháir · girl小孩儿xiǎoháir · child手shǒu · hand头tóu · head阿姨āyí · auntie别人biéren · other people

FAQs

姓名 (xìngmíng) means “full name”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word.
Say it xìngmíng: xìng with a 4th tone, then míng with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 姓名 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xingming with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 姓名 from the suggestions. Typing xingming into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
姓名 is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 2 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.