Chinese surname · rank 309
计
计 is read as jì.
jì
Simplified 计 · Traditional 計
plan, plot; stratagem; scheme
Earth
Time: Xia-Shang Ji-state tradition; Western Zhou Ju/Jijin capital layer; Spring-and-Autumn Jiran/Xin changed-surname layer; Han Jixiang office layer; Song Baijiaxing rank 113; Three Kingdoms, Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing figure record; Xia-dynasty tradition, c. 2070-1600 BCE
Place: Ji state and Jijin/Jiegen near southwest of Jiaozhou, Shandong; Ju state and Shandong context; Kuiqiu/Song and Yue contexts for Jiran; Qi commandery around Linzi, Shandong; Jingzhao/Changan, Shaanxi; Qiongzhou/Linqiong and Qionglai/Sichuan; Huangzhou/Hubei; Fuliang/Jingdezhen-Jiangxi; Maping/Liuzhou-Guangxi; Wujiang and Wuxi-Jiangsu; Xiushui/Zhejiang
Origin note
Ji is read ji as a surname. The oldest state-name tradition links Ji to a Xia-Shang Ji state near southwest of modern Jiaozhou in Shandong, remembered as a state of Yu's descendants; after the state was destroyed, descendants used the old state name. A second place-name layer comes from Ju: Zhou traditions say descendants of Shaohao were enfeoffed at Ju and built the capital Jijin, also called Jiegen, near the same Jiaozhou region; later descendants used the capital-place name. A third ancestor-name layer is Jiran, also called Ji Yan or Xin Wenzi, a Spring-and-Autumn thinker and strategist associated with Kuiqiu/Song and Yue; modern Ji families often honor him as a founding ancestor, and surname sources say the Xin surname changed to Ji. A fourth layer is official: Han had a Jixiang office managing national finance and records, and descendants may have used the office name. Later Manchu, Mongol, and other changed-surname branches are kept separate.
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