Pi (surname)

For the surname romanized Pi in Wade–Giles, see Bi (surname).

Not to be confused with Pei (surname) or Bei (surname).

Pi is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written 皮 in Chinese character. It is romanized P'i in Wade–Giles, and Pei in Cantonese. Pi is listed 85th in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames.^[1] According to a 2008 study, it was not among the 300 most common surnames in China.^[2] However a 2013 study found that it was the 279th most common name, being shared by 229,000 people or 0.017% of the population, with the province with the most people being Hunan.

Pi (皮)

Pronunciation	Pí (Mandarin) Pei (Cantonese)
Language(s)	Chinese
Origin
Language(s)	Old Chinese
Other names
Variant form(s)	P'i

The same surname is also a Korean family name (Korean: 피; MR: P'i), shared by 6,578 people in South Korea in 2015.^[3]

Notable people

• Rixiu (ca. 834–883), classixal poet
• Pi Guangye (877–943), chancellor of the Wuyue Kingdom
• Pi Xirui (皮錫瑞; 1850–1908), Confucianist
• Pi Zongshi (1887–1967), President of Hunan University
• Ignatius Pi Shushi (1897–1978), archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Shenyang
• Pi Dingjun (皮定钧; 1914–1976), PLA lieutenant general
• So-Young Pi (born 1946), South Korean physicist
• Pi Hongyan (born 1979), Chinese-born French badminton player