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Shi

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ʃə//
  • //ʃiː//

A surname from Mandarin of Chinese origin, the 63rd most common in China.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Mandarin of Chinese origin, the 63rd most common in China.

Etymology

Romanization of Mandarin 石 (shí), 史 (shǐ), 師/师 (shī), 時/时 (shí), 士 (shì), 釋/释 (shì), and 施 (shī)

Forms

plural
Shis
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).