Shī (surname)

Not to be confused with Shí (surname), Shǐ (surname), or Shì (surname).

Shī (施ほどこせ) 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 province with the most people. It is 23rd on the Hundred Family Surnames, contained in the verse 何なん呂りょ施ほどこせ張ちょう (He Lü Shi Zhang).

In Vietnamese is it written Thi.

Notable people

• Shi Lang (施ほどこせ琅, 1621–1696), Marquis Jinghai, a Chinese admiral who served under the Ming and Qing dynasties, helped conquer Taiwan
• Shi Hairong (施ほどこせ海うみ荣)
• Shi Haoran, (施ほどこせ浩然こうぜん), a Chinese swimmer who competed for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics
• Shi Yiguang (施ほどこせ夷えびす光こう), better known as Xi Shi (西にし施ほどこせ), one of the renowned Four Beauties of ancient China.
• Shi Jianqiao (施ほどこせ剑翘), the daughter of the Chinese military officer Shi Congbin, whose killing she avenged by assassinating the former warlord Sun Chuanfang
• Shi Tingmao (施ほどこせ廷懋), a Chinese diver representing Chongqing diving team
• Shih Wing-ching (施ほどこせ永えい青あお), a Hong Kong businessman
• Shi Zhecun (施ほどこせ蛰存), a Chinese author and journal editor in Shanghai during the 1930s
• Shih Chih-ming (施ほどこせ治明じめい), a Taiwanese politician of the Kuomintang party
• Shih Chin-tien (施ほどこせ金きむ典のり), a Taiwanese baseball player who currently plays for Uni-President Lions of Chinese Professional Baseball League
• Shih Ming-teh (施ほどこせ明德めいとく), political activist in Taiwan and was once a political prisoner for 25-and-a-half years
• Simon Min Sze (施ほどこせ敏さとし), electrical engineer who invented the floating-gate MOSFET with Dawon Kahng
• Henry Sy (施ほどこせ至いたり成なり), former richest taipan billionaire in the Philippines