# Shi

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**Shi** or **SHI** may refer to:

## Language

- *Shi*, a [Japanese title commonly used as a pronoun](/source/Japanese_titles#Shi)
- *Shi*, proposed [gender-neutral pronoun](/source/Gender-neutral_pronoun)
- [Shi (kana)](/source/Shi_(kana)), a kana in Japanese syllabaries
- [Shi language](/source/Shi_language), a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- *Shī*, transliteration of Chinese [Radical 44](/source/Radical_44)
- Tachelhit or the [Shilha language](/source/Shilha_language) (ISO 639 code), a Berber language spoken in Morocco

## Art

- Shi, a piece in [Chinese chess](/source/Chinese_chess)
- [Shi (character)](/source/Shi_(character)), a comic book character created by writer/illustrator William Tucci
- [Shi (poetry)](/source/Shi_(poetry)), the Chinese conception of poetry
- [*Poetry* (film)](/source/Poetry_(film)) or *Shi*, a 2010 South Korean film directed by Lee Chang-dong

## People

- [Shi (class)](/source/Shi_(class)) (士), the low aristocratic class of Shang/Zhou China, later the scholar-gentry class of imperial China
- [Shi (rank)](/source/Shi_(rank)) (士), rank group for non-commissioned officers
- [Shi (personator)](/source/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](/source/Origin_of_Chinese_surnames)
- [Shī (surname)](/source/Sh%C4%AB_(surname)), the romanization of the Chinese surname 施
- [Shí (surname)](/source/Sh%C3%AD_(surname)), the romanization of the Chinese surname 石
- [Shǐ (surname)](/source/Sh%C7%90_(surname)), the romanization of the Chinese surname 史
- [Shì (surname)](/source/Sh%C3%AC_(surname)), the romanization of the Chinese surname 士
- [Shí (surname 時)](/source/Sh%C3%AD_(surname_%E6%99%82)), the romanization of the Chinese surname 時
- [Shi (Korean given name)](/source/Shi_(Korean_given_name)), Korean given name
- [Posthumous name](/source/Posthumous_name) (諡), a traditional East Asian honorary name

## Acronym

- [Samsung Heavy Industries](/source/Samsung_Heavy_Industries), a Korean shipbuilding and offshore EPC company
- [Sumitomo Heavy Industries](/source/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](/source/Statutory_health_insurance), or national health insurance
- [Stolen Horse International](/source/Stolen_Horse_International), American organization helping to recover stolen horses

## Mathematics

- [Shi](/source/Trigonometric_integral#Hyperbolic_sine_integral), hyperbolic sine integral

## Units

- *Shí* or *shichen*, a [traditional Chinese unit of time](/source/Chinese_hour) equal to two hours
- *Shì* (市), [various administrative divisions](/source/Administrative_divisions_of_the_People's_Republic_of_China#Ambiguity_of_the_word_"city"_in_China) generally translated "city" [in mainland China](/source/Administrative_units_in_mainland_China), [on Taiwan](/source/Administrative_divisions_of_the_Republic_of_China), and [in Japan](/source/Municipalities_of_Japan)

## Other

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

## See also

- *Shíshī*, stone [Chinese guardian lions](/source/Chinese_guardian_lions)
- "*Shī Shì shí shī shǐ*", the "[Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den](/source/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den)", a tongue twister
- [Xi (disambiguation)](/source/Xi_(disambiguation))
- [Shishi (disambiguation)](/source/Shishi_(disambiguation))
- [She (disambiguation)](/source/She_(disambiguation))

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