署名

Chinese

		office; bureau	name; fame; to describe name; fame; to describe; place
trad. (署名)		署	名
simp. ^#(署名)		署	名

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shǔmíng, shùmíng

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄨˇ ㄇㄧㄥˊ, ㄕㄨˋ ㄇㄧㄥˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cyu⁵ meng^4-2
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): sú-miâ / sír-miâ / sí-miâ

(Teochew, Peng'im): su² mian⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shǔmíng
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˇ ㄇㄧㄥˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shǔmíng
  - Wade–Giles: shu³-ming²
  - Yale: shǔ-míng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuuming
  - Palladius: шумин (šumin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹ miŋ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shùmíng
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˋ ㄇㄧㄥˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shùmíng
  - Wade–Giles: shu⁴-ming²
  - Yale: shù-míng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuhming
  - Palladius: шумин (šumin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵¹ miŋ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: cyu⁵ meng^4-2
  - Yale: chyúh méng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsy⁵ meng^4-2
  - Guangdong Romanization: qu⁵ méng^4-2
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyː¹³ mɛːŋ²¹⁻³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sú-miâ
  - Tâi-lô: sú-miâ
  - Phofsit Daibuun: swmiaa
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /su⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ miã²⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /su⁵³⁻⁴⁴ miã²⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /su⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ miã²³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sír-miâ
  - Tâi-lô: sír-miâ
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ miã²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sí-miâ
  - Tâi-lô: sí-miâ
  - Phofsit Daibuun: symiaa
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /si⁵³⁻⁴⁴ miã¹³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: su² mian⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sú miâⁿ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /su⁵²⁻³⁵ mĩã⁵⁵/

Verb

署名

to sign one's name
to have one's name attached to something; to receive credit for something

Synonyms

(to sign one's name):

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具名 (jùmíng)
押名 (Taiwanese Hokkien)
簽名 / 签名 (qiānmíng)
簽字 / 签字 (qiānzì)
落名 (no² min²) (Sichuanese, Hokkien)
過號 / 过号 (Philippine Hokkien)

Noun

署名

signature

Japanese

Kanji in this term
署	名
しょ Grade: 6	めい Grade: 1
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
署名 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) しょめー [shòméé] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ɕo̞me̞ː]

Noun

署(しょ)名(めい) • (shomei)

signature
核廃絶(かくはいぜつ)のために４００万人分(よんびゃくまんにんぶん)の署名(しょめい)を集(あつ)めた。
Kaku haizetsu no tame ni yon-byaku-man-nin-bun no shomei o atsumeta.
We collected 4 million signatures for nuclear disarmament.
digital signature

Verb

署(しょ)名(めい)する • (shomei suru) suru (stem 署(しょ)名(めい)し (shomei shi), past 署(しょ)名(めい)した (shomei shita))

to sign

Conjugation

Conjugation of "署名する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	署名し	しょめいし	shomei shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	署名し	しょめいし	shomei shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	署名する	しょめいする	shomei suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	署名する	しょめいする	shomei suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	署名すれ	しょめいすれ	shomei sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	署名せよ¹ 署名しろ²	しょめいせよ¹ しょめいしろ²	shomei seyo¹ shomei shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	署名される	しょめいされる	shomei sareru
Causative	署名させる署名さす	しょめいさせるしょめいさす	shomei saseru shomei sasu
Potential	署名できる	しょめいできる	shomei dekiru
Volitional	署名しよう	しょめいしよう	shomei shiyō
Negative	署名しない	しょめいしない	shomei shinai
Negative continuative	署名せず	しょめいせず	shomei sezu
Formal	署名します	しょめいします	shomei shimasu
Perfective	署名した	しょめいした	shomei shita
Conjunctive	署名して	しょめいして	shomei shite
Hypothetical conditional	署名すれば	しょめいすれば	shomei sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

Synonyms

(signature): サイン (sain)

References

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

“署名”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja in this term
署	名

Noun

署名 • (seomyeong) (hangeul 서명)

hanja form^? of 서명 (“signature”)

[NHK-1] NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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