Shí (surname)

Shi ([ʂɻ̩]) or Shih is the romanization of a Chinese surname. It means "stone." It was one of the "Nine Sogdian Surnames."[1] A 2013 study found it was the 63rd most common surname, shared by 4,550,000 people or 0.340% of the population, with Henan being the province with the most people.

For the class of Chinese clan names (氏), see Chinese surname § Origin of Chinese surnames. For Korean given name, see Shi (Korean given name). For other uses, see Shi (disambiguation).
"Shi (surname)" redirects here. For 史, see Shǐ (surname). For 施, see Shī (surname). For 士, see Shì (surname).

Notable people
  • Howard S.H. Shyr (石世豪), Chairperson of National Communications Commission of the Republic of China (2012–2016)
  • Jeffrey "Trump" Shih (石謙和), American Hearthstone player
  • Shi Feng (石峰), Chinese swimmer, who competed for China at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
  • Shi Hongjun (石鸿俊), Chinese footballer
  • Shi Ke (石柯), Chinese footballer
  • Shi Le (石勒), a Later Zhao ruler from among the Jie
  • Shi Shen (石申), a Wei astronomer
  • Shi Shouxin (石守信), a military general in imperial China, first serving the Later Zhou during the last years of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
  • Shi Xiaotian (石笑天), Chinese football player who currently plays for Chinese Super League
  • Shi Xin Hui (石欣卉), a Malaysian singer, who was one of the five popular new talents emerged from the Channel U's popular singing talent show, Project Superstar 2005 in Singapore
  • Shi Yao (石瑶), Chinese female ice hockey goaltender
  • Shi Zhiyong (weightlifter, born 1980) (石智勇), Chinese weightlifter, Olympic Champion during the 2004 Summer Olympics
  • Shi Zhiyong (weightlifter, born 1993) (石智勇), Chinese weightlifter, Olympic Champion during the 2016 Summer Olympics
  • Shi Zongyuan (石宗源), ethnic Hui, was a politician of the People's Republic of China
  • Shih Chih-wei (石志偉), Taiwanese baseball player for the Lamigo Monkeys
  • Shih Kien (石堅), Hong Kong-based Chinese actor
  • Shih Su-mei (石素梅), Taiwanese politician, Minister of the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (2008-2016)

是

Shì in pinyin

釋 / 释

Shì in pinyin

釋 is a common surname for Chinese Buddhist monks and nuns. The practice started with the monk Dao'an (312–385), who advocated that all monks and nuns adopt 釋 as their surname, from the Chinese abbreviation of Gautama Buddha's title, Shijiamounifo (釋迦牟尼佛 "Śākyamuni").

gollark: For one thing, it doesn't really work in many cases.
gollark: That's a horrible bodge which has all kinds of problems.
gollark: Being actually-simple is a design goal which I think is important, but this is not the way to do it, and I don't think it should be at the expense of useful features which improve readability. Like being able to ACTUALLY ABSTRACT THINGS.
gollark: Or RPNCalc v2.
gollark: Or lisp.

See also

References
  1. https://sogdians.si.edu/sidebars/the-nine-sogdian-surnames/
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.