GGood Chinese Name

Chinese surname · rank 191

时

时 is read as shí.

Pinyin

shí

Script forms

Simplified 时 · Traditional 時

Basic meaning

time, season; era, age, period

Five element

Water

Origin

Time: Spring and Autumn fief/state traditions; Chu Shenshu Shi record layer; Spring and Autumn tradition, 770-476 BCE

Place: Henan/Song Shi tradition, Shandong Shi/Ru water region for ancient Shi state, and Chu Shenshu Shi lineage layer

Origin note

is a multi-origin surname, so the page should not explain it from the everyday meaning 'time'. One line is Zi-surname: a Song official is said to have been enfeoffed at Shi, an old Shi/ place, and descendants used the place name as a surname. A second line is Ying-surname, connected with an ancient Shi state later destroyed by Chu near the Shi/Ru water system in the Shandong region. A third line is Mi-surname: descendants of the Chu official Shenshu Shi used the personal-name element Shi as a surname. These strands explain why has both state/fief and ancestor-name traditions.

Historical figures

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Sources checked

  • 23mofang surname library: - Zi-surname, Ying-surname, and Mi-surname origin layers for
  • Wikipedia: - Shenshu Shi account and Zi-surname/ancient Shi state surname traditions
  • Wikipedia: - historical context for the Chu official Shenshu Shi
  • Han Dian: - basic character meaning and surname listing