Zhi () is a
Chinese family name. , it ranks as the 163rd most common Chinese surname in
Mainland China.
Origin
One origin of the surname came from descendants of Zhi Fu () during the
Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors
The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors were two groups of mythological rulers in ancient north China. The Three Sovereigns supposedly lived long before The Five Emperors, who have been assigned dates in a period from 3162 BC to 2070 BC. Today ...
in ancient China.
Many non-Han Chinese groups adopted the surname Zhi. In the
Qin and
Han dynasties,
Yuezhi simplified their names to Zhi.
Notable people
Historical
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Lokaksema, a Buddhist monk who traveled to China during the
Han dynasty and translated Buddhist texts into Chinese, and, as such, is an important figure in
Chinese Buddhism.
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Zhidun, Buddhist monk and philosopher.
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Zhi Qian, a Buddhist monk who translated a wide range of Indian Buddhist scriptures into Chinese.
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Wang Shichong, a general of
Sui dynasty
The Sui dynasty (, ) was a short-lived imperial dynasty of China that lasted from 581 to 618. The Sui unified the Northern and Southern dynasties, thus ending the long period of division following the fall of the Western Jin dynasty, and layi ...
who deposed Sui's last emperor
Yang Tong and briefly ruled as the emperor of a succeeding state of Zheng.
* , a politician in the
Ming dynasty.
Contemporary
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Chi-Ming Che, a
Hong Kong chemist and an academician of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Zhi Bingyi
Zhi Bingyi (; 19 September 1911 – 24 July 1993) was a Chinese scientist in the fields of telecommunications engineering, measuring instrument and Chinese character encoding. He was one of the earliest figures in Chinese history to have contr ...
, a scientist and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Zhi Shuping, a politician in the People's Republic of China.
* , a retired Chinese
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
player.
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Zhi Yaqi
Zhi Yaqi (Chinese: 支雅琪; Pinyin: ''Zhī Yǎqí''; born 27 March 1990) is a Chinese football player.
Club career
In 2009, Zhi Yaqi started his professional footballer career with Shenzhen Asia Travel in the Chinese Super League. On 28 Mar ...
, a Chinese football player.
References
* {{cite book , author1=Ji, Li , script-title=zh:中国人的姓氏文化 , trans-title=Chinese Surname Culture , year=2020 , publisher=Chemical Industry Press , location=Beijing , isbn=9787122365392 , language=zh
Chinese-language surnames