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Surname

/sˈɜˌrneɪm/
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(noun) The portion of a person's name that is generally hereditary or treated as an indicator of a person's family, which may be shared with other members of the family, or otherwise derived from their names in some fashion; distinguished from that person's given name(s).

My surname is Zhou.
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