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    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...
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  • politician Pi Vèriss, Dutch songwriter and composer Pi (entertainer), American drag performer Bi (surname) (Chinese: 毕), romanized as Pi in Wade–Giles Pi (surname)...
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  • Life of Pi is a Canadian philosophical novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist is Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry...
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    Wade–Giles: Pi) is a Chinese surname. It is listed 76th in the Song dynasty classic text, the Hundred Family Surnames. Deriving from the surname Ji, King...
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    Kong). In Vietnamese the surname is written as Trân. Lady Zhen (甄夫人; 183–221), personal name unknown, first wife of Cao Pi Zhen Luan (甄鸾; 535–566), mathematician...
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  • These are lists of the most common Chinese surnames in the People's Republic of China (Hong Kong, Macau, and Mainland China), the Republic of China (Taiwan)...
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  • Chinese surnames including Xīn 辛, Xīn 新 and Xìn 信. Xīn 辛 is the commonest among these; it is the 379th surname in the Hundred Family Surnames. The Chinese...
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  • Haraguchi (category Surnames)
    Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Akira Haraguchi (原口 證, born 1946), Japanese engineer known for memorizing and reciting Pi digits...
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    Xú Línxiá; 1904/1905 – 6 September 1949) was a Chinese communist. Born in Pi County, she attended the No. 3 Normal School before joining the Kuomintang...
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  • Chinese names begin with surnames, unlike the Western tradition in which surnames are written last. Around 2,000 Han Chinese surnames are currently in use...
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  • This is a list of Korean surnames, in Hangul alphabetical order. The most common Korean surname (particularly in South Korea) is Kim (김), followed by Lee...
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    Xianbei (redirect from Hsien Pi)
    transcribe Middle Persian sēr (lion) and 卑 to transcribe foreign syllable /pi/; for instance, Sanskrit गोपी gopī "milkmaid, cowherdess" became Middle Chinese...
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  • of Buddy Holly Charles Henry Hardin (1820–1892), co-founder of Beta Theta Pi fraternity Chelsea Hardin, American beauty pageant titleholder, Miss Hawaii...
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  • the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 曹 (Cáo). It is listed 26th in the Song-era Hundred Family Surnames poem. Cao is romanized as "Tsao" in Wade-Giles...
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    Sánchez (redirect from Sanchez (surname))
    applied statistician and operations researcher Abel Sanchez (also known as Oqwa Pi), San Ildefonso Pueblo painter, muralist, and politician Aldo Sambrell (1931–2010)...
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  • Yung is a surname in various cultures. Yung may be a spelling of a number of Chinese surnames based on their pronunciation in different varieties of Chinese...
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  • Call Me by Fire (Season 2) (Chinese: 披荊斬棘; pinyin: jīng zhǎn jí) is a 2022 Chinese singing reality television show which premiered on August 19, 2022...
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  • control Pio, prefix of 250 octets, a unit of information in computer science Pi O or П. O., Greek-Australian poet born 1951 This disambiguation page lists...
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  • Pinault (category Surnames)
    Pinault (French pronunciation: [pi.no]) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Clément Pinault (1985–2009), French football defender François...
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  • are currently in the top 300 surnames in China,[when?] although surname 薄 is the 271st surname in the Hundred Family Surnames and is quite well known due...
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  • family names consist of only a single character. It is an occupational surname, literally meaning "control" (sī) "horses" (mǎ), or "horse officer". The...
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  • an Indonesian surname with elements derived from their Chinese surname. In certain instances, the phonetic spelling of these surnames is utilized instead...
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  • sausage, and his bossy partner, the shorter, pudgier Phil (Spanish: Filemón) Pi, named after fillet. Initially, they were private detectives operating as...
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    Professional Actor Training Program, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi. Karn also gained drama experience in Scotland at the Edinburgh Festival....
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    The Hundred Family Surnames (Chinese: 百家姓), commonly known as Bai Jia Xing, also translated as Hundreds of Chinese Surnames, is a classic Chinese text...
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    theorem, Chebyshev polynomials, Chebyshev linkage, and Chebyshev bias. The surname Chebyshev has been transliterated in several different ways, like Tchebichef...
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  • common Chinese surname that is pronounced similarly in both Mandarin and Hakka dialects. The meaning of the character used in the Lai (賴) surname is "depend...
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  • Pineault (category Surnames)
    Pineault (French pronunciation: [pi.no]) is a surname that originates from France. Notable people with the surname include: Adam Pineault (born 1986)...
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    pronunciation: [ɥɛ̌n] ) is a Chinese surname ranked 37th in China by population in 2019. In Standard Chinese, the surname is transliterated Yuán (hanyu pinyin)...
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  • Chinese Zhen (surname) (甄), a Chinese surname Balhae Kingdom, originally called Zhen (振) in Chinese Lady Zhen (183-221), wife of Cao Pi of Cao Wei of...
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