Chinese surnames

毕

bì · Bi

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 76
Ancestral seat (junwang)
河南
Wikidata
Q855179

In other languages

  • German Bi
  • English Bi
  • Spanish Bi
  • French Bi
  • Japanese 畢
  • Korean 비
  • Russian Би
  • Vietnamese Tất
  • Traditional Chinese 畢

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Bi Sheng1000 – 1051

    inventor and printer (990-1052)

  • Bi Yuan1730 – 1797

    Qing dynasty politician and historian

  • Bi Shiduo900 – 888

    Military Officer

  • Franz Bi1899 – 1968

    German architect (1899-1968)

  • Bi Xian802 – 864

    chancellor of Tang Dynasty and minister of defense

  • Bi Hao1927 – 2014

    Chinese military officer

  • Lucilla Yu Ming1936 – 1996

    Hong Kong actress (1936-1996)

  • Bi Guyun1930 – 2023

    Peking opera actor (1930-2023)

  • Bi Lan150 – 189

    Han Dynasty eunuch

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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).