Shi

Shi or SHI may refer to:

Language

• Shi, a Japanese title commonly used as a pronoun
• Shi, proposed gender-neutral pronoun
• Shi (kana), a kana in Japanese syllabaries
• Shi language, a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Shī, transliteration of Chinese Radical 44
• Tachelhit or the Shilha language (ISO 639 code), a Berber language spoken in Morocco

Art

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

People

• Shi (class) (士), the low aristocratic class of Shang/Zhou China, later the scholar-gentry class of imperial China
• Shi (rank) (士), rank group for non-commissioned officers
• Shi (personator) (尸), a ceremonial "corpse" involved in early forms of ancestor worship in China

Names

• Shì (氏), a Chinese clan name previously distinguished from ancestral or family names; see Origin of Chinese surnames
• Shī (surname), the romanization of the Chinese surname 施
• Shí (surname), the romanization of the Chinese surname 石
• Shǐ (surname), the romanization of the Chinese surname 史
• Shì (surname), the romanization of the Chinese surname 士
• Shí (surname 時), the romanization of the Chinese surname 時
• Shi (Korean given name), Korean given name
• Posthumous name (諡), a traditional East Asian honorary name

Acronym

• Samsung Heavy Industries, a Korean shipbuilding and offshore EPC company
• Sumitomo Heavy Industries, a Japanese integrated manufacturer of industrial machinery, automatic weaponry, ships, bridges and steel structure, equipment for environmental protection company
• Statutory health insurance, or national health insurance
• Stolen Horse International, American organization helping to recover stolen horses

Mathematics

• Shi, hyperbolic sine integral

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

Other

• Shchi or "schi", a classic traditional Russian soup
• SHI International Corp, an American information technology company
• Shi Islet (獅嶼), Lieyu Township, Kinmen County, Fujian, Republic of China (Taiwan)
• SHI, the Chapman code for Shetland, UK
• SHI, the IATA code for Shimojishima Airport in the Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
• SHI, the National Rail code for Shiplake railway station in the county of Oxfordshire, UK

See also

• Shíshī, stone Chinese guardian lions
• "Shī Shì shí shī shǐ", the "Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den", a tongue twister
• Xi (disambiguation)
• Shishi (disambiguation)
• She (disambiguation)