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 (character), a comic book character created by writer/illustrator 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) (), the low aristocratic class of Shang/Zhou China, later the scholar-gentry class of imperial China
  • Shi (rank) (), rank group for non-commissioned officers
  • Shi (personator) (), 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)