Chinese surname · rank 202
司
司 is read as sī.
sī
Simplified and traditional 司
take charge of, control, manage; officer
Earth
Time: Spring and Autumn Zheng ancestor-name tradition; Zhou and later official-title compound-surname layers; Zhou official-title tradition, 1046-256 BCE
Place: Zheng/New Zheng tradition in Henan, with later Dunqiu and broader compound-surname branches noted in surname sources
Origin note
is a surname with both personal-name and office-name layers. One source-backed line comes from the Ji-surname ruling house of Zheng: after Zheng Huan Gong and Zheng Wu Gong, a later Zheng figure named Si Chen gave rise to descendants who used as a surname. A second line is occupational or compound-surname based: families with names such as Sima, Situ, Sikou, or Sicheng could later shorten or branch into the single-character surname . The page therefore treats as a Zheng ancestor-name surname plus an official-title and compound-surname surname, rather than deriving it only from the everyday verb 'to manage'.
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