Chinese surnames

时

shí · Shi

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 83
Ancestral seat (junwang)
陇西
Wikidata
Q11087187

In other languages

  • German Shi
  • English Shi
  • Spanish Shi
  • French Shi
  • Japanese 時
  • Korean 스
  • Vietnamese Shi
  • Traditional Chinese 時

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Shi Qian? – 1120

    Water Margin character

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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).