Chinese surnames

沙

shā · Sha

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 385
Ancestral seat (junwang)
汝南
Wikidata
Q11139860

In other languages

  • German Sha
  • English Sha
  • Spanish Sha
  • French Sha
  • Korean 사

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Sha Menghai1900 – 1992

    Chinese artist (1900–1992)

  • Sha Yexin1939 – 2018

    Chinese writer (1939-2018)

  • Sha Wenhan1908 – 1964

    Chinese politician and University president

  • Qianli Sha1901 – 1982

    Chinese politician

Find printed genealogies

The Shanghai Library holds one of the largest collections of Chinese family genealogies (jiapu). Its genealogy platform lists each genealogy's title, ancestral place, founding ancestor, hall name and holding library. Search there by surname and your family's ancestral place.

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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).