Radical 83

Radical 83 or radical clan meaning "clan" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals composed of 4 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 10 characters to be found under this radical.
氏 is also the 89th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Sinogram

As an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a fourth grade kanji.

In Japanese it refers to Japanese clans or uji.
* It also refers to Ujigami which are gods originally limited to clans which are now worshipped by everyone in a region.
In Chinese it refers to Chinese clan surnames. Historically Chinese surnames had two levels with the higher level xing shared by many people and the lower level shi which was frequently changed. Similar to Roman nomen and Cognomen