Chinese surnames

支

zhī · Zhi

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 163
Ancestral seat (junwang)
邰阳
Wikidata
Q4515483

In other languages

  • English Zhi
  • Korean 즈
  • Russian Чжи
  • Vietnamese Chi

Notable historical bearers

Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.

  • Zhi Qian101 – 300

    3rd century Buddhist monk and translator active in the Kingdom of Wu

  • Zhi Bingyi1911 – 1993

    Chinese scientist

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Sources: the Hundred Family Surnames (public domain) with ancestral seats from the chinese-poetry dataset (MIT); spellings and people from Wikidata (CC0).