Chinese surnames

纪

jì · Ji

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 122
Ancestral seat (junwang)
平阳
Wikidata
Q15898289

In other languages

  • German Ji
  • English Ji
  • Japanese 紀
  • Korean 지
  • Traditional Chinese 紀

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Ji Yun1724 – 1805

    Chinese Qing dynasty scholar (1724-1805)

  • Ji Ling101 – 220

    Late 2nd century Chinese general serving Yuan Shu

  • Empress Xiaomu1451 – 1475

    Ming dynasty person CBDB = 129292

  • Ji Xin? – 204 BCE

    Chinese general who lived in the 3rd century BC

  • Ji Dengkui1923 – 1988

    Chinese politician

  • Nikolay Tifontay1849 – 1910

    Chinese merchant, one of the main suppliers of the Russian Army during the Russo-Japanese War

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).