Shuài (帥) is a
Chinese surname
Chinese surnames are used by Han Chinese and Sinicization, Sinicized ethnic groups in Greater China, Korea, Vietnam and among overseas Chinese communities around the world such as Singapore and Malaysia. Written Chinese names begin with surnames, ...
. Shi ( OC: /*sri/) was changed to Shuai ( OC: , ) to
avoid conflict with the name of
Sima Shi
Sima Shi () (208 – 23 March 255), courtesy name Ziyuan, was a military general and regent of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of China. In February 249, he assisted his father Sima Yi in overthrowing the emperor Cao Fang's regent Cao S ...
, a military general and regent of
Cao Wei
Wei () was one of the major Dynasties in Chinese history, dynastic states in China during the Three Kingdoms period. The state was established in 220 by Cao Pi based upon the foundations laid by his father Cao Cao during the end of the Han dy ...
during the
Three Kingdoms
The Three Kingdoms of Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu dominated China from AD 220 to 280 following the end of the Han dynasty. This period was preceded by the Eastern Han dynasty and followed by the Jin dynasty (266–420), Western Jin dyna ...
period of China. Shuai is the 298th most common surname in China.
Notable people with the surname Shuai include:
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Bei Bei Shuai
Bei Bei Shuai () is a Chinese immigrant to the United States who became the subject of international public attention from 2011 to 2013, when the authorities of the state of Indiana charged her with murder and attempted feticide after her suicide ...
, Chinese immigrant
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Shuai Pei-ling
Shuai Pei-ling (; born 24 February 1993) is a Taiwanese badminton player.
Achievements
BWF International Challenge/Series
''Mixed doubles''
: BWF International Challenge tournament
: BWF International Series
The BWF International Series ...
(born 1993), Taiwanese badminton player
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Shuai Mengqi
Shuai Mengqi (; 3 January 189713 April 1998) was a Chinese politician.
Early life
Shuai Mengqi was born on 3 January 1897 in Hanshou County, Hunan. Her father was a ''shengyuan'' and Tongmenghui member who organised local revolutionary demonstr ...
(1897–1998), Chinese politician
See also
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Shuai jiao
''Shuai jiao'' () is the term pertaining to the ancient jacket wrestling Wushu (sport), wushu style of Beijing, Tianjin and Baoding of Hebei Province in the North China Plain which was codified by Shan Pu Ying (善撲营 The Battalion of Excel ...
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Yuan shuai
was a Chinese military rank that corresponds to a marshal in other nations. It was given to distinguished generals during China's dynastic and republican periods. A higher level rank of '' Dayuanshuai'' ( zh , s = 大元帅 , t = 大元帥 , p ...
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Da yuan shuai
() was a Chinese military rank, usually translated as grand marshal.
During the early Republic of China, the rank of was assumed by Yuan Shikai in 1913, Sun Yat-sen in 1917 and Zhang Zuolin in 1927.
The rank was replaced by the Nationalist ...
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Chinese-language surnames
Individual Chinese surnames