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Language

* ''Shi'', a Japanese title commonly used as a pronoun * ''Shi'', proposed
gender-neutral pronoun A third-person pronoun is a pronoun that refers to an entity other than the speaker or listener. Some languages with gender-specific pronouns have them as part of a grammatical gender system, a system of agreement where most or all nouns have a va ...
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Shi (kana) し, in hiragana, or シ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent the phonemes although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is . The shapes of these kana have origins in the char ...
, a kana in Japanese syllabaries *
Shi language Shi, or Nyabungu, is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Nyindu variety is heavily influenced by Lega, and speakers consider it a dialect of Lega rather than Shi, as Shi speakers see it. Maho (2009) leaves it unclassif ...
* ''Shī'', transliteration of Chinese
Radical 44 Radical 44 or radical corpse () meaning "corpse" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes. In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 148 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. is also th ...
* Tachelhit or the
Shilha language , now more usually known as Tashelhit , is a Berber language spoken in southwestern Morocco. The endonym is , and in recent English publications the name of the language is often rendered ''Tashelhit'', ''Tashelhiyt'' or ''Tashlhiyt''. In Morocc ...
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Art

* Shi, a piece in
Chinese chess ''Xiangqi'' (; ), also called Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular board game in China. ''Xiangqi'' is in the same family of games as ''shogi'', ''janggi'', Western chess, ''chatur ...
* ''Shi'' (comics), a comic book series created by William Tucci *
Shi (poetry) ''Shi'' and ''shih''Based on the Wade-Giles system formerly used by Taiwan and English-speaking countries. are romanizations of the character /, the Chinese word for all poetry generally and across all languages. In Western analysis of the st ...
, the Chinese conception of poetry * ''Poetry'' (film) or ''Shi'', a 2010 South Korean film directed by Lee Chang-dong


People

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Shi (class) The four occupations () or "four categories of the people" ()Hansson, pp. 20-21Brook, 72. was an job, occupation International Standard Classification of Occupations, classification used in History of China, ancient China by either Confucianism, C ...
(), the low aristocratic class of Shang/Zhou China, later the scholar-gentry class of imperial China * Shi (rank) (), rank group for
non-commissioned officer A non-commissioned officer (NCO) is a military officer who has not pursued a commission. Non-commissioned officers usually earn their position of authority by promotion through the enlisted ranks. (Non-officers, which includes most or all enli ...
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Shi (personator) The ''shi'' () was a ceremonial "personator" who represented a dead relative during ancient Chinese ancestral sacrifices. In a ''shi'' ceremony, the ancestral spirit supposedly would enter the descendant "corpse" personator, who would eat and drin ...
(), a ceremonial "corpse" involved in early forms of ancestor worship in China


Names

* ''Shì'' (氏), a Chinese clan name previously distinguished from ancestral or family names; see
Origin of Chinese surnames Chinese surnames are used by Han Chinese and Sinicization, Sinicized ethnic groups in China, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, and among overseas Chinese communities around the world such as Singapore and Malaysia. Written Chinese names begin with surnames, ...
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Shī (surname) Shī (施) is a Chinese surname. It is written as Sze or Sy in Cantonese or Hokkien romanisation. According to a 2013 study it was the 106th most common name, being shared by 2.06 million people or 0.150% of the population, with Jiangsu being the p ...
, the romanization of the Chinese surname 施 *
Shí (surname) Shí ( ɻ̩̌ or Shih is the romanization of the Chinese surname . 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 H ...
, the romanization of the Chinese surname 石 *
Shǐ (surname) Shǐ (史) is a Chinese surname meaning "history" of "official historiographer". It is romanized Shih in Wade–Giles, or Sze or Si in Cantonese romanization. According to a 2008 study, it was the 82nd most common name in China. A 2013 study found ...
, the romanization of the Chinese surname 史 *
Shì (surname) Shì is a Chinese surname. It is not among the 400 most common surnames according to a 2013 study.中国四百大姓 Front Cover, 袁义达, 邱家儒, Beijing Book Co. Inc., 1 January 2013 Notable people * Shi Ci (士賜), the administrator of Ri ...
, the romanization of the Chinese surname 士 *
Shi (Korean given name) Shi, also spelled Si, or Shie, Shee, Sie, Sea, See, is an uncommon List of Korean surnames, Korean surname, an element in two-syllable Korean given names. As given name meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. There are 54 Hanja with ...
, Korean given name *
Posthumous name A posthumous name is an honorary name given mostly to the notable dead in East Asian culture. It is predominantly practiced in East Asian countries such as China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan, and Thailand. Reflecting on the person's accomplishments or ...
(諡), a traditional East Asian honorary name


Acronym

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Samsung Heavy Industries Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (Korean: 삼성중공업) is one of the largest shipbuilders in the world and one of the "Big Three" shipbuilders of South Korea (including Hyundai and Daewoo). Geoje (in Gyeongsangnam-do) is one of the largest ...
, a Korean shipbuilding and offshore EPC company *
Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI) is an integrated manufacturer of industrial machinery, automatic weaponry, ships, bridges and steel structure, equipment for environmental protection, including recycling, power transmission equipment, plastic molding machines, laser proces ...
, a Japanese integrated manufacturer of industrial machinery, automatic weaponry, ships, bridges and steel structure, equipment for environmental protection company * Statutory health insurance, or national health insurance * Stolen Horse International, a non-profit organization founded to assist horse owners with recovering horses lost during theft


Mathematics

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Shi Shi or SHI may refer to: Language * ''Shi'', a Japanese titles#Shi, Japanese title commonly used as a pronoun * ''Shi'', proposed gender-neutral pronoun * Shi (kana), a kana in Japanese syllabaries * Shi language * ''Shī'', transliteration of ...
, hyperbolic sine integral


Units

* ''Shí'' or ''shichen'', a traditional Chinese unit of time equal to two hours * ''Shì'' (市), various administrative divisions generally translated "city" in mainland China, on Taiwan, and in Japan


Other

* Shchi or "schi", a classic traditional Russian soup *
SHI International Corp SHI International Corp. (commonly referred to as SHI), headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey, is a privately owned provider of IT infrastructure, end-user computing, cybersecurity, and IT optimization products and services. SHI has customers in th ...
, an American information technology company *
Shi Islet Shi Islet (; also Shi Yu,, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Shih Yü,, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Shiyu, Shiyu Islet and Lion Islet) is an islet located northwest of Lesser Kinmen (Lieyu) in Li ...
(獅嶼), Lieyu Township, Kinmen County, Fujian, Republic of China (Taiwan) * SHI, the Chapman code for
Shetland Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands and formerly Zetland, is a subarctic archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands and Norway. It is the northernmost region of the United Kingdom. The islands lie about to the no ...
, UK * SHI, the IATA code for Shimojishima Airport in the Okinawa Prefecture, Japan * SHI, the National Rail code for
Shiplake railway station Shiplake railway station is a railway station in the village of Lower Shiplake (formerly Lashbrook) in Oxfordshire, England. The station is on the Henley-on-Thames branch line that links the towns of Henley-on-Thames and Twyford. It is do ...
in the county of Oxfordshire, UK


See also

* ''Shíshī'', stone
Chinese guardian lions Chinese guardian lions, or imperial guardian lions, are a traditional Chinese architectural ornament, but the origins lie deep in much older Indian Buddhist traditions. Typically made of stone, they are also known as stone lions or shishi () ...
* "''Shī Shì shí shī shǐ''", the "
Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den "Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den" () is a short narrative poem written in Classical Chinese that is composed of about 94 characters (depending on the specific version) in which every word is pronounced ''shi'' () when read in present-day Stan ...
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Xi (disambiguation) Xi may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Xi'' (alternate reality game), a console-based game * Xi, Japanese name for the video game ''Devil Dice'' Language *Xi (letter), a Greek letter * Xi, a Latin digraph used in British English to write ...
* Shishi (disambiguation) *
She (disambiguation) She most commonly refers to: *She (pronoun), the third person singular, feminine, nominative case pronoun in modern English. She or S.H.E. may also refer to: Literature and films *'' She: A History of Adventure'', an 1887 novel by H. Rider Hagga ...
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