Shih is the

Wade–Giles Wade–Giles () is a romanization system for Mandarin Chinese. It developed from a system produced by Thomas Francis Wade, during the mid-19th century, and was given completed form with Herbert A. Giles's '' Chinese–English Dictionary'' o ...

equivalent of Shi in Chinese. It may refer to: *

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 ...

(詩/诗), a term for Chinese poetry *

Shí (surname) Shí ( �ɻ̩̌ or Shih is the romanization of the Chinese surname . It means "stone." It was one of the " Nine Sogdian Surnames." A 2013 study found it was the 63rd most common surname, shared by 4,550,000 people or 0.340% of the population, with ...

, the romanization of several Chinese surnames *

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 ...

(士), the low aristocratic class of Shang/Zhou China, later the scholar-gentry class of imperial China *

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 ...

(尸), a ceremonial "corpse" involved in early forms of ancestor worship in China *

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 * ''Shih'' (市), various administrative divisions generally translated "city" on Taiwan and in mainland China * ''Shih'' (時), a traditional Chinese unit of time equal to two hours *Shih, transliteration of Chinese Radical 44 * Shih (composer) or Shih Chieh, Taiwanese-Austrian composer

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