Shí (surname)
Shi surname in regular script | |
| Pronunciation | Shí (Mandarin Pinyin) Shih2 (Mandarin Wade-Giles) Sek6 (Cantonese Jyutping) Sehk6 (Cantonese Yale) Shek6 (Cantonese Wade-Giles) |
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| Language(s) | Chinese |
| Origin | |
| Language(s) | Old Chinese |
| Meaning | “stone” |
| Other names | |
| Variant form(s) | Shi, Shih (Mandarin) Sek, Sehk (Cantonese) |
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Shí ([ʂɻ̩̌]) or Shih is the romanization of the Chinese surname 石. It means "stone." It was one of the "Nine Sogdian Surnames." A 2013 study found it was the 63rd most common surname, shared by 4,550,000 people or 0.340% of the population, with Henan being the province with the most people.
It should not be confused with Shí (surname 時), a rarer surname meaning "time."