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.