| 太史公 |
Tài shǐ gōng |
Grand Scribe, the title by which Sima Qian 司马迁 refers to himself in Records of the Historian 史记 |
| 太 |
tài |
highest / greatest / too (much) / very / extremely |
| 太史 |
Tài shǐ |
two-character surname Taishi |
| 史 |
Shǐ |
surname Shi |
| 史 |
shǐ |
history / annals / title of an official historian in ancient China |
| 公 |
gōng |
public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal) |