Chinese surname · rank 362
皮
皮 is read as pí.
pí
Simplified and traditional 皮
skin, hide, fur, feather; outer
Earth
Time: Western Zhou to Spring and Autumn tradition, 1046-476 BCE
Place: Fan Zhongpi / Piyi fief around Hejin, Shanxi, plus Zheng Zhipi and Jin Zhao Su layers.
Origin note
Pi is treated as a surname from ancestor-name and fief-name traditions, not from the everyday meaning skin or hide. The main Ji-surname layer comes through Fan Zhongpi: sources identify him as a Zhou grandee connected with the Fan line, with descendants using Pi from his name or from Piyi, a fief associated with modern Hejin in Shanxi. A second ancestor-name layer comes from Zheng, where descendants of the minister Zhipi are said to have used Pi from his name. 23mofang also records a Ying-surname line through Zhao Su, whom Jin Xian Gong enfeoffed at Pi. These layers point to separate branches, so this page presents Pi as a convergence of ancestor-name and fief-name sources rather than a single universal founder story.
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