Shi or SHI may refer to:

Language

* ''Shi'', a Japanese title commonly used as a pronoun * ''Shi'', proposed

gender-neutral pronoun A third-person pronoun is a pronoun that refers to an entity other than the speaker or listener. Some languages with gender-specific pronouns have them as part of a grammatical gender system, a system of agreement where most or all nouns have a va ...

Shi (kana) し, in hiragana, or シ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent the phonemes although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is . The shapes of these kana have origins in the cha ...

, a kana in Japanese syllabaries *

Shi language Shi, or Nyabungu, is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Nyindu variety is heavily influenced by Lega, and speakers consider it a dialect of Lega rather than Shi, as Shi speakers see it. Maho (2009) leaves it unclassif ...

* ''Shī'', transliteration of Chinese Radical 44 * Tachelhit or the

Shilha language , now more usually known as Tashelhit , is a Berber language spoken in southwestern Morocco. The endonym is , and in recent English publications the name of the language is often rendered ''Tashelhit'', ''Tashelhiyt'' or ''Tashlhiyt''. In Mor ...

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Art

* Shi, a piece in

Chinese chess ''Xiangqi'' (; ), also called Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular board game in China. ''Xiangqi'' is in the same family of games as '' shogi'', '' janggi'', Western chess, '' ch ...

* ''Shi'' (comics), a comic book series created by William Tucci *

Shi (poetry) ''Shi'' and ''shih''Based on the Wade-Giles system formerly used by Taiwan and English-speaking countries. are romanizations of the character /, the Chinese word for all poetry generally and across all languages. In Western analysis of the sty ...

, the Chinese conception of poetry * ''Poetry'' (film) or ''Shi'', a 2010 South Korean film directed by Lee Chang-dong

People

Shi (class) The four occupations () or "four categories of the people" ()Hansson, pp. 20-21Brook, 72. was an occupation classification used in ancient China by either Confucian or Legalist scholars as far back as the late Zhou dynasty and is considered a cen ...

(), the low aristocratic class of Shang/Zhou China, later the scholar-gentry class of imperial China * Shi (rank) (), rank group for

non-commissioned officer A non-commissioned officer (NCO) is a military officer who has not pursued a commission. Non-commissioned officers usually earn their position of authority by promotion through the enlisted ranks. (Non-officers, which includes most or all enli ...

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Shi (personator) The ''shi'' () was a ceremonial " personator" who represented a dead relative during ancient Chinese ancestral sacrifices. In a ''shi'' ceremony, the ancestral spirit supposedly would enter the descendant "corpse" personator, who would eat and dri ...

(), 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) Shī (施) is a Chinese surname. It is written as Sze or Sy in Cantonese or Hokkien romanisation. According to a 2013 study it was the 106th most common name, being shared by 2.06 million people or 0.150% of the population, with Jiangsu being the p ...

, the romanization of the Chinese surname 施 * Shí (surname), the romanization of the Chinese surname 石 *

Shǐ (surname) Shǐ (史) is a Chinese surname meaning "history" of "official historiographer". It is romanized Shih in Wade–Giles, or Sze or Si in Cantonese romanization. According to a 2008 study, it was the 82nd most common name in China. A 2013 study found ...

, the romanization of the Chinese surname 史 * Shì (surname), the romanization of the Chinese surname 士 * Shi (Korean given name), Korean given name *

Posthumous name A posthumous name is an honorary name given mostly to the notable dead in East Asian culture. It is predominantly practiced in East Asian countries such as China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan, and Thailand. Reflecting on the person's accomplishment ...

(諡), a traditional East Asian honorary name

Acronym

Samsung Heavy Industries Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. ( Korean: 삼성중공업) is one of the largest shipbuilders in the world and one of the "Big Three" shipbuilders of South Korea (including Hyundai and Daewoo). Geoje (in Gyeongsangnam-do) is one of the lar ...

, a Korean shipbuilding and offshore EPC company *

Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI) is an integrated manufacturer of industrial machinery, automatic weaponry, ships, bridges and steel structure, equipment for environmental protection, including recycling, power transmission equipment, plastic molding machines, laser proce ...

, 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, a non-profit organization founded to assist horse owners with recovering horses lost during theft

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 Shchi ( rus, щи, p=ɕːi, a=Ru-щи.ogg) is a Russian-style cabbage soup. When sauerkraut is used instead, the soup is called sour shchi, while soups based on sorrel, spinach, nettle, and similar plants are called green shchi (russian: зе ...

or "schi", a classic traditional Russian soup * SHI International Corp, an American information technology company *

Shi Islet Shi Islet (; also Shi Yu,, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Shih Yü,, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Shiyu, Shiyu Islet and Lion Islet) is an islet located northwest of Lesser Kinmen (Lieyu) in Lie ...

(獅嶼), Lieyu Township, Kinmen County, Fujian, Republic of China (Taiwan) * SHI, the Chapman code for

Shetland Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands and formerly Zetland, is a subarctic archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands and Norway. It is the northernmost region of the United Kingdom. The islands lie about to the ...

, 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