Chai (surname)

For the surname spelled Chai in Wade–Giles, see Zhai. For the Korean name sometimes spelled Chai, see Chae.

Chai (Chinese: 柴; pinyin: Chái; Wade–Giles: Ch'ai, also spelled as Tsai, Tchai) is a Chinese surname. The same surname is Sài in Vietnamese, and Si (시, sometimes spelled as Shi, See, Sie, Sea) in Korean.

Chai is listed 325th in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames.[1] As of 2008, it is the 127th most common surname in China, shared by 1.35 million people.[2]

  1. ^ "百家姓" [Hundred Family Surnames] (in Chinese). Guoxue. Retrieved 2014-09-16.
  2. ^ 中国最新300大姓排名（2008） [300 most common surnames in China (2008)] (in Chinese). Taiwan.cn. 2009-01-06. Retrieved 2014-09-18.