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CHI
/kaɪ/
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What does CHI mean?
noun
- The twenty-second letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets.
- A life force in traditional Chinese philosophy, culture, medicine, etc, related (but not limited) to breath and circulation.
- The Chinese foot, a traditional Chinese unit of length based on the human forearm.
More meanings (12)
noun
- The Chinese unit of length standardized in 1984 as ¹/₃ of a meter.
- The Taiwanese unit of length standardized as ¹⁰/₃₃ of a meter, identical to the Japanese shaku.
- The chek or Hong Kong foot, a unit of length standardized as 0.371475 meters.
- Clipping of chihuahua.
- (informal) Clipping of Chihuahua.
proper noun
- A Chinese surname.
- (slang) Chicago
- (slang) Chichester (city in England)
- A male given name.
- A surname from Chinese.
- Abbreviation of Chicago.
- (dated, historical) Qi, an ancient Chinese duchy, and later kingdom, under the Zhou dynasty
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IPA pronunciation
/kaɪ/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
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Ogni dolcezza, ogni pensiero umile Nasce nel core a chi parlar la sente; Ond’è beato chi prima la vide.
“Chi va piano va sano,” he remarked at last, with a derisive glance over the side, in ironic allusion to our own tremendous speed.
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Chi non ha figluoli non sa qualche cosa sia amore.
At first he hesitated; quoted the Italian proverb, Chi sta bene non si muove; said he had lived fifteen years in Rome, married a wife there, and looked forward to dying and being buried there.
And if ye will wit of their A.B.C. what letters they be, here ye may see them, with the names that they clepe them there amongst them: Alpha, Betha, Gama, Deltha, εlonge, ε brevis, Epilmon, Thetha, Iota, Kapda, Lapda, Mi, Ni, Xi, ο brevis, Pi, Coph, Ro, Summa, Tau, Vi, Fy, Chi, Psi, Othomega, Diacosyn.