Chinese surnames

戚

qī · Qi

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 33
Ancestral seat (junwang)
东海
Wikidata
Q6796873

In other languages

  • German Qi
  • English Qi
  • Spanish Qi
  • French Qi
  • Korean 치
  • Vietnamese Thích (họ người)

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Qi Jiguang1528 – 1588

    Ming Dynasty general

  • Concubine Qi224 BCE – 194 BCE

    Han dynasty concubine (c.224 – 194 BC)

  • Zhanran711 – 782

    8th century Chinese Buddhist monk, the sixth Tiantai patriarch

  • Qi Benyu1931 – 2016

    Chinese propagandist (1931-2016)

  • Liangqing1896 – 1967

    Chinese Buddhist monk and abbot of the Famen Temple

  • Qi Yuanjing1929 – 1994

    Chinese engineer and 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).