Ji_(surname_纪)
Ji (surname 纪)
Chinese family name
Jǐ[1] (or Jì)[2] is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written 纪 in simplified Chinese and 紀 in traditional Chinese. It is romanized as Chi in Wade–Giles, and Kei in Cantonese. Ji is the 136th most common surname in China, with a population of 1.1 million. It is listed 122nd[citation needed] in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames.[3] It is 42nd in the Hundred Family Surnames, contained in the verse 熊紀舒屈 (Xiong, Ji, Shu, Qu).