Kanji姓
Readingしょう
Frequency55%
Used in (18 in total)
farmer; peasant; farming; country bumpkin; yokel; the common people
(noble's) page
surname; family name; hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing)
peasant uprising (Edo period); peasants' revolt
low class samurai, who guarded the shogun on outings (Edo period)
birth; lineage; identity; background; provenance; origin
peasant; small farmer
poor peasant; peasant farmer
the four Hindu castes; the four great families of the Heian period (esp. the Minamoto clan, the Taira clan, the Fujiwara clan and the Tachibana clan)
person of humble birth
secular surname (of a priest)
unorthodox reading of kanji (in compounds)
freeholding farmer (Edo period); freeholding peasant