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Pi (surname)

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Language(s)
  
Chinese

Variant(s)
  
P'i

Language(s)
  
Old Chinese

Pi (surname)

Pronunciation
  
Pí (Mandarin) Pei (Cantonese)

Pi is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written 皮 in Chinese character. It is romanized P'i in Wade–Giles, and Pei in Cantonese. Pi is listed 85th in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames. It is not among the 300 most common surnames in China.

Notable people

  • Pi Rixiu (ca. 834–883), Tang dynasty poet
  • Pi Xirui (皮錫瑞; 1850–1908), Qing dynasty Confucianist
  • Pi Zongshi (1887–1967), President of Hunan University
  • Ignatius Pi Shushi (皮漱石; 1897–1978), archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Shenyang
  • Pi Dingjun (皮定钧; 1914–1976), PLA lieutenant general
  • Pi Hongyan (born 1979), Chinese-born French badminton player

    • References

    Pi (surname) Wikipedia
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