chi

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1 1.1.1 Alternative spellings 1.1.2 Pronunciation 1.1.3 Letter 1.1.3.1 Translations 1.2 Etymology 2 1.2.1 Alternative spellings 1.2.2 Pronunciation 1.2.3 Noun 1.2.3.1 Quotations 1.3 Anagrams 2 Amuzgo 2.1 Noun 2.2 Adverb 3 Chickasaw 3.1 Alternative spellings 3.2 Pronoun 3.3 Pronoun 4 Chinese 4.1 Verb 5 Cornish 5.1 Noun 6 Italian 6.1 Pronunciation 6.2 Pronoun 7 Japanese 7.1 Noun 8 Mandarin 8.1 Verb 8.2 Pinyin syllable 8.2.1 Usage notes 9 Vietnamese 9.1 Noun 9.2 Verb 10 Welsh 10.1 Pronunciation 10.2 Pronoun 10.3 Noun 10.3.1 Conjugation

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology 1

[edit] Alternative spellings

• khi

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /xaɪ, kaɪ/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Rhymes: -aɪ

[edit] Letter

chi

1. The twenty-second letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets, and the twenty-third letter of Old and Ancient alphabets.

[edit] Translations

[edit] Etymology 2

[edit] Alternative spellings

• ki
• qi

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /tʃiː/

[edit] Noun

chi (uncountable)

1. A form of psychic energy.

[edit] Quotations

• 2001 — Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, p 196

  He took several deep breaths, finding his chi as Butler had taught him.

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: chi
• CIH
• HCI
• hic
• ich, Ich, ICH

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[edit] Amuzgo

[edit] Noun

chi

1. grandfather

[edit] Adverb

chi

1. not

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[edit] Chickasaw

[edit] Alternative spellings

• che

[edit] Pronoun

chi

1. you

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chi

1. my

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[edit] Chinese

[edit] Verb

chi

1. see chi

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[edit] Cornish

[edit] Noun

chi (m)

1. house

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [ki]

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chi

1. who, whom
2. whoever

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[edit] Japanese

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chi (hiragana ち)

1. 血: blood
2. 地: earth, soil, the ground
3. 知: know, understand, see, find, notice
4. 智: wise
5. ち: hiragana letter chi
6. チ: katakana letter chi

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Verb

chi (Pinyin chī, traditional and simplified 吃)

1. eat

   wo bu ai chi zhurou. "I don't like to eat pork."

   • ta yong cha1 chi niupa.

   she/he uses fork to eat beefsteak.

[edit] Pinyin syllable

chi

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, chī, chí, chǐ, or chì.

[edit] Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Noun

chi

1. leg, limb
2. line of descent

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chi

1. to spend (money), to pay out, to disburse

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[edit] Welsh

[edit] Pronunciation

• SAMPA: xi
• IPA: xi

[edit] Pronoun

chi

1. you (plural)

[edit] Noun

chi

1. ci (dog) with the aspirate mutation.

[edit] Conjugation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
ci	gi	nghi	chi