Shī (施) is a Chinese surname. It is written as Sze or Sy in

Cantonese Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It originated in the city of Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta. While th ...

Hokkien Hokkien ( , ) is a Varieties of Chinese, variety of the Southern Min group of Chinese language, Chinese languages. Native to and originating from the Minnan region in the southeastern part of Fujian in southeastern China, it is also referred ...

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 Jiangsu is a coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province in East China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with its capital in Nanjing. Jiangsu is the List of Chinese administra ...

being the province with the most people. It is 23rd on the ''

Hundred Family Surnames The ''Hundred Family Surnames'' (), commonly known as ''Bai Jia Xing'', also translated as ''Hundreds of Chinese Surnames'', is a classic Chinese language , Chinese text composed of common Chinese surnames. An unknown author compiled the book ...

'', contained in the verse 何呂施張 (He Lü Shi Zhang). In Vietnamese is it written Thi.

Notable people

Shi Lang Shi Lang (1621–1696), Marquis Jinghai, also known as Secoe or Sego, was a Chinese admiral who served under the Ming dynasty, Ming and Qing dynasty, Qing dynasties in the 17th century. He was the commander-in-chief of the Qing fleets which dest ...

(施琅, 1621–1696), Marquis Jinghai, a Chinese admiral who served under the Ming and Qing dynasties, helped conquer Taiwan * Shi Hairong (施海荣) * Shi Haoran, (施浩然), a Chinese swimmer who competed for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics *Shi Yiguang (施夷光), better known as

Xi Shi Xi Shi (Hsi Shih; , ), also known by the nickname Xizi, was one of the renowned Four Beauties of ancient China. She was said to have lived in a small Yue village (today part of Zhuji, a county-level city in Shaoxing, Zhejiang) during the end of ...

(西施), one of the renowned Four Beauties of ancient China. * Shi Jianqiao (施剑翘), the daughter of the Chinese military officer Shi Congbin, whose killing she avenged by assassinating the former warlord Sun Chuanfang * Shi Tingmao (施廷懋), a Chinese diver representing Chongqing diving team * Shih Wing-ching (施永青), a Hong Kong businessman * Shi Zhecun (施蛰存), a Chinese author and journal editor in Shanghai during the 1930s * Shi Zhongheng (施仲衡), a Chinese engineer and academician * Shih Chih-ming (施治明), a Taiwanese politician of the Kuomintang party * Shih Chin-tien (施金典), a Taiwanese baseball player who currently plays for Uni-President Lions of Chinese Professional Baseball League *

Shih Ming-teh Shih Ming-teh (; 15 January 1941 – 15 January 2024), commonly known as Nori Shih, was a Taiwanese statesman and human rights defender. He was once a political prisoner for 25-and-a-half years. Arrested at the age of 21 in 1962 and charged w ...

(施明德), political activist in Taiwan and was once a political prisoner for 25-and-a-half years *

Simon Min Sze Simon Min Sze, or Shi Min (; 21 March 1936 – 6 November 2023), was a Taiwanese-American electrical engineer. He is best known for inventing the floating-gate MOSFET with Korean electrical engineer Dawon Kahng in 1967. Early life and educat ...

(施敏), electrical engineer who invented the

floating-gate MOSFET The floating-gate MOSFET (FGMOS), also known as a floating-gate MOS transistor or floating-gate transistor, is a type of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) where the gate is electrically isolated, creating a floating no ...

with

Dawon Kahng Dawon Kahng (; May 4, 1931 – May 13, 1992) was a Korean-American electrical engineer and inventor, known for his work in solid-state electronics. He is best known for inventing the MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transisto ...

Henry Sy Henry Tan Chi Sieng Sy Sr. (; zh, c=, p=Shī Zhìchéng, zhu=ㄕㄓˋ ㄔㄥˊ, poj=Si Chì-sêng, s=, t=, first=poj; October 15, 1924 – January 19, 2019) was a Filipino businessman. Born in Fujian, he moved with his family to the Philip ...

(施至成), former richest taipan billionaire in the

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