Shi or SHI may refer to:

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, such as Slavic, with gender-specific pronouns have them as part of a grammatical gender system, a system of agreement where most o ...

Shi (kana) し, in hiragana, or シ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one Mora (linguistics), mora. Both represent the phonemes , reflected in the Nihon-shiki romanization, Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki romanization, Kunrei-sh ...

, a kana in Japanese syllabaries * Shi language * ''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 t ...

* Tachelhit or the

Shilha language ( ; from its name in Moroccan Arabic, ), now more commonly known as Tashelhiyt or Tachelhit ( ; from the endonym , ), is a Berber language spoken in southwestern Morocco. When referring to the language, anthropologists and historians prefer the ...

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Art

* Shi, a piece in

Chinese chess Xiangqi (; ), commonly known as 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, chaturanga, and In ...

* ''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 ...

, the Chinese conception of poetry * ''Poetry'' (film) or ''Shi'', a 2010 South Korean film directed by Lee Chang-dong

People

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, ...

(), the low aristocratic class of Shang/Zhou China, later the scholar-gentry class of imperial China *

Shi (rank) (; ) is the rank usually held by Non-commissioned officers in some East Asian militaries. The ranks are used in both the People's Republic of China and Taiwan, and both North Korea, North and South Korea. The rank name is based on the on one of t ...

(), rank group for non-commissioned officers *

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 dri ...

(), 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 *

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 ...

, 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 He ...

, 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 foun ...

, 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 Rin ...

, the romanization of the Chinese surname 士 * Shí (surname 時), the romanization of the Chinese surname 時 * Shi (Korean given name), Korean given name *

Posthumous name A posthumous name is an honorary Personal name, name given mainly to revered dead people in East Asian cultural sphere, East Asian culture. It is predominantly used in Asian countries such as China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan, Malaysia and Thailand. ...

(諡), a traditional East Asian honorary name

Acronym

Samsung Heavy Industries Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. () is one of the largest shipbuilders in the world and one of the "Big Three" shipbuilders of South Korea (including Hyundai and Hanwha). Geoje (in South Gyeongsang Province) is one of the largest shipyards ...

, a Korean shipbuilding and offshore EPC company *

Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI) is an integrated manufacturer of industrial machinery, defence products, ships, bridges and steel structure, equipment for environmental protection, including recycling, power transmission equipment, plastic molding machines, laser proce ...

, a Japanese integrated manufacturer of industrial machinery, automatic weaponry, ships, bridges and steel structure, equipment for environmental protection company *

Statutory health insurance National health insurance (NHI), sometimes called statutory health insurance (SHI), is a system of health insurance that insures a national population against the costs of health care. It may be administered by the public sector, the private sector ...

, or national health insurance *

Stolen Horse International Stolen Horse International, Inc. (also known as SHI and NetPosse) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded to assist horse owners with recovering stolen horses. Their website states their mission is "to provide a comprehensive theft awarene ...

, American organization helping to recover stolen horses

Mathematics

* Shi, 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 Shchi ( rus, щи, p=ɕːi, a=Ru-щи.ogg, sometimes transliterated as šči) is a Russian cuisine, Russian-style cabbage soup. When sauerkraut is used instead, the soup is called sour shchi, while soups based on sorrel, spinach, Urtica dioica, n ...

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 ...

, an American information technology company *

Shi Islet Shi Islet ( zh, c=, poj=sai-sū, hp=Shī Yǔ, l=Lion 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 lo ...

(獅嶼), Lieyu Township, Kinmen County, Fujian, Republic of China (Taiwan) * SHI, the

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, UK * SHI, the IATA code for Shimojishima Airport in the Okinawa Prefecture, Japan * SHI, the National Rail code for Shiplake railway station in the county of Oxfordshire, UK