Bei (surname)

Bei is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written 贝 in simplified Chinese and 貝 in traditional Chinese. It is romanized Pei in Wade–Giles. Bei is listed 110th in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames.[1] It is not among the 300 most common surnames in China.[2]

For the surname 裴 written Pei in Pinyin, see Pei (surname).
Bei (贝/貝)
PronunciationBèi (Mandarin)
Language(s)Chinese
Origin
Language(s)Old Chinese
Other names
Variant form(s)Pei

Notable people
  • Bei Jinquan (贝锦泉; 1831–1890), Qing dynasty general
  • Bei Shizhang (1903–2009), "Father of Chinese Biophysics"
  • I. M. Pei (Bei Yuming, 1917–2019), Chinese-American architect
  • Peggy Lam (Bei Yujia, born 1928), Hong Kong politician
  • Pui Kwan Kay (Bei Junqi; 貝鈞奇; born 1951), Hong Kong businessman
  • Bei Ling (貝嶺, born 1959), Chinese poet
gollark: Plus associated functions to suspend coroutines and whatnot.
gollark: ```luawhile run do local ev = {cy()} for ID, co in pairs(coroutines) do if coroutine.status(co.coroutine) == "dead" then co.status = "dead" co.running = false end if co.running then _G.process.running_ID = ID local ok, err = coroutine.resume(co.coroutine, table.unpack(ev)) if not ok then if co.error_handler then co.error_handler(err) else run = false error = err end end end endend```is what I have for that.
gollark: When I say "process" I mean "coroutine with fancy metadata being run in a loop".
gollark: Er, as a process, I mean.
gollark: It's not hard, just run `rednet.run` in your loop.

References
  1. "百家姓" [Hundred Family Surnames] (in Chinese). Guoxue. Retrieved 2014-09-25.
  2. 中国最新300大姓排名（2008） [300 most common surnames in China (2008)] (in Chinese). Taiwan.cn. 2009-01-06. Retrieved 2014-09-25.
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