Dai is the

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of the Chinese surname written with the

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. It is romanized as Tai in Wade-Giles and in Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation. Dai is the 96th most common surname in China, according to a report on the household registrations released by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security on April 24, 2007.公安部统计：'王'成中国第一大姓有9288万人
ublic Security Bureau Statistics: 'Wang' Found China's #1 'Big Family', Includes 92.88m People" 24 Apr 2007. Accessed 27 Mar 2012.

Meanings of the character

* Apply items to the person's head, face, neck, hand, etc. * Respect, esteem, or support.汉典：戴的解释
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Notable people

Business

* Dai Chunning (戴春宁, born 1962), Chinese finance businessman * Dai Min (戴敏, born 1958), Chinese water treatment businesswoman *

Weili Dai Weili Dai () is a Chinese-born American businesswoman. She is the co-founder, former director, and former president of Marvell Technology Group. Dai is a successful female entrepreneur, and is the only female co-founder of a major semiconductor ...

(戴伟立), Chinese-born American technology businesswoman *Andrew Tai (戴浩原), Canadian-Chinese businessman, Founder & CEO of Unhaggle and Motoinsight

Academia and literature

Dai Yi Dai Yi () (born September 1926) is a Chinese historian who primarily focuses on the Qing dynasty's history. He is a professor at Renmin University of China. He is also the honorary director of the university's Qing dynasty's history institute as we ...

(戴逸, born 1926), Chinese historian * Dai Qing (戴晴, born 1941), Chinese journalist *

Dai Sijie Dai Sijie (born 1954) is a Chinese French author and filmmaker. Early life Dai was born in Putian, Fujian, in 1954. His parents, Professor Dai Baoming and Professor Hu Xiaosu, were professors of medical sciences at West China University ...

(戴思杰, born 1954), Chinese-born French author and filmmaker * Dai Jinhua (戴锦华, born 1959), Chinese feminist cultural critic * Dai Xu (戴旭, born 1964), Chinese author, social commentator, and the president of Marine Institute For Security And Cooperation *

Hongjie Dai Hongjie Dai (; born 2 May 1966 in Shaoyang, China). is a Chinese-American nanotechnologist and applied physicist. He is the J.G. Jackson & C.J. Wood Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University.. A leading figure in the study of carbon nanot ...

(戴宏杰, born 1966), Chinese-born American chemist

Entertainment

* Aaron Dai (戴海清, born 1967), American composer and pianist *

Leon Dai Leon Dai (, born 27 July 1966) is a Taiwanese actor and film director. His film '' Cannot Live Without You'' was Taiwan's submission to the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The film also won two awards at the 46th Golden Hor ...

(戴立忍, born 1966), Taiwanese actor and film director *

Penny Tai Penny Tai (; born 22 April 1978) is a Malaysian singer, songwriter, producer and director. Since her debut in 2000, she has achieved many successes in her music career, including winning 5 Golden Melody Awards. In addition to performing arts ...

(戴佩妮, born 1978), Malaysian Mandopop singer *

Dai Jiaoqian Dai Jiaoqian (; born 4 June 1982), also known as Shirley Dai, is a Chinese actress, singer and hostess. Dai is noted for her roles as Liu Xia and Princess Xingdai in the television series ''Flowering Season, Rainy Season'' (1998) and '' The Pala ...

(戴娇倩, born 1982), Chinese actress * Dantes Dailiang (戴亮, born 1978), French Mandopop singer

Politics and government

Dai Jitao Dai Jitao or Tai Chi-t'ao (; January 6, 1891 – February 21, 1949) was a Chinese journalist, an early Kuomintang member, and the first head of the Examination Yuan of the Republic of China. He is often referred to as Dai Chuanxian () or by his ...

(戴季陶, 1891–1949), journalist and Kuomintang leader *

Dai Li Lieutenant General Dai Li (Tai Li; ; May 28, 1897 – March 17, 1946) was a Chinese spymaster. His courtesy name was Yunong (雨農). Born Dai Chunfeng (Tai Chun-feng; 戴春風) in Bao'an, Jiangshan, Zhejiang province, he studied at the W ...

(also Tai Li; 戴笠, 1897–1946), Republic of China spy chief *

Dai Bingguo Dai Bingguo (; born March 31, 1941) is a Chinese politician and professional diplomat. Since 2008, Dai has emerged as one of the foremost and highest-ranking figures of Chinese foreign policy in the Hu Jintao administration. A graduate of Sic ...

(戴秉国, born 1941), Chinese politician and diplomat * Dai Xianglong (戴相龙, born 1944), Chinese politician, former governor of the People's Bank of China *

Tai Chin-wah Tai Chin-wah (born 24 August 1952, in Hong Kong) was a New Territories Justice of Peace until 1992, practicing solicitor member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (1985–91) for the New Territories West electoral college and Yuen Long Dis ...

(戴展華, born 1952), Hong Kong former politician and lawyer *

Benny Tai Benny Tai Yiu-ting (; born 12 July 1964) is a Hong Kong legal scholar, political figure, and democracy activist. He was an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong. From 2013, Tai launched and is known for his initiation of ...

(戴耀廷, One of the founders of the Occupy Central * Dai Weimin (戴维民, born 1962), People's Liberation Army general * Day Guey-ing (戴桂英), Deputy Minister of Department of Health of the Republic of China (2012–2013) * Irving H.C. Tai (戴豪君), Taiwan politician, former Deputy Commissioner of the Research, Development and Evaluation Commission *

Tai Cheuk-yin Leslie Spencer Tai Cheuk-yin is a Hong Kong politician. He was the last chairman of the pro-Republic of China (Taiwan) Hong Kong political organisation 123 Democratic Alliance 123 Democratic Alliance ( Chinese: 一二三民主聯盟) was a p ...

(戴卓賢), Hong Kong politician, former chairman of the 123 Democratic Alliance

Sport

* Tai Chao-chih (戴兆智, born 1930), Taiwanese sport shooter * Dai Guohong (戴国红, born 1977), Chinese swimmer * Dai Yun (戴韫, born 1977), retired Chinese female badminton player * Dai Xianrong (戴宪荣, born 1982), China League One footballer * Dai Lili (戴丽丽, born 1986), Chinese table tennis player * Dai Lin (戴琳, born 1987), Chinese Super League footballer * Tai Hung-hsu (戴宏旭, born 1987), Taiwanese football striker *

Dai Xiaoxiang Dai Xiaoxiang (; 15 December 1990, Xiamen) is a Chinese archer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held fr ...

(戴小祥, born 1990), Chinese archer * Dai Jun (swimmer) (戴骏, born 1992), Chinese swimmer *

Tai Tzu-ying Tai Tzu-ying (; born 20 June 1994) is a Taiwanese badminton player. At the age of 22, she became world No. 1 in the women's singles in December 2016, and she is the women's singles player who has held that title for the longest in BWF hist ...

(戴資穎, born 1992), Taiwanese badminton player * Olivia Tai Qing Tong (戴辛彤, born c. 1998), Malaysian rhythmic gymnast

Other

* Wei Dai (戴维), creator of the Bitcoin predecessor
b-money
and developer of the

Crypto++ Crypto++ (also known as CryptoPP, libcrypto++, and libcryptopp) is a free and open-source C++ class library of cryptographic algorithms and schemes written by Wei Dai. Crypto++ has been widely used in academia, student projects, open-source, and ...

library

References

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