Chinese surnames

司马

sī mǎ · Sima

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 408
Ancestral seat (junwang)
河内
Wikidata
Q592176

In other languages

  • German Sima
  • English Sima
  • Spanish Sima
  • French Sima
  • Japanese 司馬
  • Korean 사마씨
  • Russian Сыма
  • Vietnamese Tư Mã
  • Traditional Chinese 司馬

Notable historical bearers

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

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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).