Shi Explained
Shi or SHI may refer to:
Language
Art
- Shi, a piece in Chinese chess
- Shi (comics), a comic book series created by 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
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