Chi (紀)
A Taiwanese surname.
紀 Chi
- Zhuyin
- ㄐㄧˋ
- Pinyin
- jì
- Wade-Giles
- Chi
- Further spellings of 紀
- Ji
- Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô)
- Kí
- Hakka (Sixian)
- gi⁵⁵
- Rank in Taiwan
- 70th most common surname, roughly 0.17% of the population (2023 Ministry of the Interior figures)
What the character means
It means 'discipline, rules' (as in 紀律), 'record' (like 記) and 'era, period'.
Where the surname comes from
Tradition traces it to the state of Ji (紀) near present-day Shouguang, Shandong, granted to descendants of the Yan Emperor of the Jiang (姜) clan. When Qi destroyed Ji, its people took the state's name. Hall name (堂號): 平陽堂.
Saying it 我姓紀 — wǒ xìng jì (ㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄐㄧˋ), "my family name is 紀"
Sources: rank and share, 內政部 全國姓名統計分析 (Ministry of the Interior, National Name Statistics), data as of 2023-06-30. Taiwanese Hokkien readings, 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi), 百家姓 appendix. Hakka, 教育部臺灣客語辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka), 百家姓表, Sixian (四縣腔).