Pi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pi"

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete): Pe, P'i

Etymology

From Mandarin 郫 (Pí).

Pronunciation

• enPR: pē
• Homophones: P, p, pea, pee

Proper noun

Pi

1. (historical) A county of Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
   • 1978 November 27 [1978 November 19], “Szechwan Peasants Elect Production Team Leader By Secret Ballot”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 228, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengtu Szechwan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Southwest Region, page J 1:

     Pi County has brought democracy into full play. The peasants there are electing production team leaders and other production team cadres by secret ballot.

   • 1983, Cheng-yün Liu, The Ko-lao Hui in Late Imperial China‎^[1], →OCLC, page 133:

     [...]water carriers, the sedanchair carriers, the pawn brokers, and even the manure collectors in a market town in Pi county, Szechwan in the late Ch'ing period.

   • 2017, Christian P. Sorace, “The Utopia of Urban Planning”, in Shaken Authority: China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake‎^[2], Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 82:

     In addition to my own residential complex, I also engaged in ethnographic observation and conducted interviews with Party cadres and local residents in four similar apartment complexes in Dujiangyan and two in neighboring Pi County.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Pi.

Synonyms

• Pixian; Pe Heen, P'i Hsien (obsolete)
• Pidu

Translations

former county in southwestern China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 郫 (zh) (Pí)

• Japanese: 郫 (hi)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pi Xian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2428, column 2

Anagrams

• IP, Ip

Asturian

Proper noun

Pi ?

1. initialism of Piloña

Bourbonnais-Berrichon

Noun

Pi m

1. woodpecker

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [piː]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

Pi n (strong, genitive Pis or Pi, plural Pis)

1. pi (Greek letter)
2. (mathematics) pi, an important constant

   Synonym: Kreiszahl f

Declension

Declension of Pi [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Pi	die	Pis
genitive	eines	des	Pis, Pi	der	Pis
dative	einem	dem	Pi	den	Pis
accusative	ein	das	Pi	die	Pis

Further reading

• “Pi” in Duden online

Latin

Proper noun

Pī

1. genitive/vocative singular of Pius