Shi

Look up shi, Shi, or SHI in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Shi or shi may refer to:

Language

• Shi language
• shi (kana), a kana in Japanese syllabaries
• "Shi", proposed gender-neutral pronoun
• Tachelhit or the Shilha language (ISO 639 code)

Art

• Shi (poetry), the Chinese conception of poetry
• Shi, a Japanese title commonly used as a pronoun
• Shi (comics), a comic book series created by William Tucci
• Poetry (film) or Shi, a 2010 South Korean film by Lee Chang-dong
• Shi, a piece in Chinese chess

People

• Shi (class) (士), the low aristocratic class of Shang/Zhou China, later the scholar-gentry class of imperial China
• Shi (personator) (尸), a ceremonial "corpse" involved in early forms of ancestor worship in China
• Shi (scribe) (史), a ministerial post in early China responsible for ritual and calendar matters, astrology, and historiography

Surnames

• shi (氏), a Chinese clan name previously distinguished from ancestral or family names; see Chinese surname#Origin of Chinese surnames
• Shi (surname), the romanization of several Chinese surnames

Acronym

• Samsung Heavy Industries, a shipbuilding company
• Stolen Horse International
• Shimojishima Airport (IATA code)
• Sustainable Harvest International, an American charity

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

See also

• shíshī, stone Chinese guardian lions
• "Shī Shì shí shī shǐ", the "Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den"
• shishi (disambiguation)
• she (disambiguation)