Family/given: 池: pond 智: wisdom 遲: lateGiven name only: 只: only 支: branch 枝: branch 止: stop 之: to go to 知: to know 地: earth 指: to point 志: intention 至: to arrive 紙: paper 持: hold 誌: to record 遲: lateJi, also spelled Jee, Chi, or Chee, is a Korean family name, as well as a popular element in Korean given names.
Each has one bon-gwan: for the family name meaning "wisdom", Pongju Village, Pongsan County, North Hwanghae in what is today North Korea, and for the family name meaning "pond", Chungju, Chungcheongbuk-do in what is today South Korea.
[1] The 2000 South Korean census found 147,572 people with this family name.
[2] In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 79.5% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Ji in their passports.
Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 3.0%) included Gi, Chee, Je, and Jy.