Shuai

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Shuài (帥) is a Chinese surname. Shi ({{linktext|師}} OC: /*sri/) was changed to Shuai ({{linktext|帥}} OC: {{transl|zh|italic=no|/*sruds/}}, {{transl|zh|/italic=no|*srud/}}) to avoid conflict with the name of Sima Shi, a military general and regent of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of China.{{cite book|title=Good Son Is Sad If He Hears the Name of His Father: The Tabooing of Names in China As a Way of Implementing Social Values|first=Piotr|last=Adamek|date=5 July 2017|page=124|publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781351565219|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WzQrDwAAQBAJ&dq=shuai+naming+taboo&pg=PA124|access-date=13 December 2021|archive-date=23 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230923193220/https://books.google.com/books?id=WzQrDwAAQBAJ&dq=shuai+naming+taboo&pg=PA124|url-status=live}} Shuai is the 298th most common surname in China.{{cite web |url=http://www.taiwan.cn/zppd/XSDG/200901/t20090106_811068.htm |script-title=zh:中国最新300大姓排名（2008） |trans-title=300 most common surnames in China (2008) |publisher=Taiwan.cn |language=Chinese |date=2009-01-06 |accessdate=2021-07-31 |archive-date=2018-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304011114/http://www.taiwan.cn/zppd/XSDG/200901/t20090106_811068.htm |url-status=live }}

Notable people with the surname Shuai include:

• Bei Bei Shuai, Chinese immigrant
• Shuai Pei-ling (born 1993), Taiwanese badminton player
• Shuai Mengqi (1897–1998), Chinese politician