名字

Kana: みょうじ

surname; family name

Example sentence

私の名字は田中です。

わたしのみょうじはたなかです。

My surname is Tanaka.

What 名字 means

名字 (みょうじ) is a Japanese word meaning “surname; family name”. It belongs to the People & Family topic and appears at Level 3, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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