Ji (surname 纪)
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For other Chinese surnames also romanized as "Ji", see Ji (surname).
Jǐ[1] (or Jì)[2] is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written 纪 in simplified Chinese and 紀 in traditional Chinese. It is romanized as Chi in Wade–Giles, and Kei in Cantonese. Ji is the 136th most common surname in China, with a population of 1.1 million. It is listed 122nd[citation needed] in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames.[3] It is 42nd in the Hundred Family Surnames, contained in the verse 熊紀舒屈 (Xiong, Ji, Shu, Qu).
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Pronunciation | Jǐ (Mandarin) Kei (Cantonese) |
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Language(s) | Chinese |
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Language(s) | Old Chinese |
Meaning | "record; remember" |
Other names | |
Variant form(s) | Chi, Kei |
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