Ji is the
pinyin romanization of a number of distinct
Chinese surnames that are written with different
characters in Chinese. Depending on the character, it may be spelled
Ji,
Jí,
Ji, or
Jì when
tone diacritics are used. In
Wade–Giles they are romanized as
Chi. Languages using the
Latin alphabet do not distinguish among the different Chinese surnames, rendering them all as Ji or Chi.