Chinese surnames

贝

bèi · Bei

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 110
Ancestral seat (junwang)
清河
Wikidata
Q814607

In other languages

  • German Bei
  • English Bei
  • Japanese 貝
  • Korean 베이
  • Russian Бэй (фамилия)
  • Traditional Chinese 貝

Notable historical bearers

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

  • I. M. Pei1917 – 2019

    Chinese-American architect (1917–2019)

  • Bei Shizhang1903 – 2009

    Chinese biologist (1903-2009)

  • Bei Qiong1314 – 1379

    Ming dynasty person CBDB=27835

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.

Search 贝 genealogies at the Shanghai Library ↗

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