chi

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• /t͡ʃiː/
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• /ʃaɪ/
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• /t͡ʃaɪ/
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• homophone: chai
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• /kaɪ/
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• chē
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• /t͡ʃə/
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From the Wade-Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese 齊 /齐 (Qí).

Apocopic form of Chicago.

Apocopic form of Chichester.

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 姞 (Jí), sometimes derived from 女 (“woman, matriarchal clan marker”) + 吉 (jí, “lucky”). Doublet of Ji.

From Latin chī, from Ancient Greek χεῖ (kheî).

From the Mandarin 氣/气 (qì) from the Wade–Giles romanization: chʻi4, from Middle Chinese 氣 (MC khj+jH), from Old Chinese 氣 (OC *khɯds, “breath, vapor”). Compare modern Japanese 気(き) (ki), Korean 기(氣) (gi) and Vietnamese khí (氣).

From the pinyin romanization of Mandarin 尺 (chǐ). Doublet of chek.

69 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: خِي (ḵī) — Greek letter
• Asturian: khi — Greek letter
• Catalan: khi — Greek letter
• Chinese Mandarin: 西 (xī) — Greek letter
• Chinese Mandarin: 喜 (xǐ) — Greek letter
• Chinese Mandarin: 凱 /凯 (kǎi) — Greek letter
• Czech: chí — Greek letter
• Dutch: chi — Greek letter
• Esperanto: ĥio — Greek letter
• Finnish: khii — Greek letter
• French: chi — Greek letter
• French: khi — Greek letter
• German: Chi — Greek letter
• Greek: χι (chi) — Greek letter
• Ancient Greek: χεῖ (kheî) — Greek letter
• Hebrew: כִי (chi) — Greek letter
• Hungarian: khi — Greek letter
• Interlingua: chi — Greek letter
• Irish: chí — Greek letter
• Japanese: キー (kī) — Greek letter
• Japanese: カイ (kai) — Greek letter
• Japanese: ヒ (hi) — Greek letter
• Korean: 키 (ki) — Greek letter
• Macedonian: хи (hi) — Greek letter
• Malay: khi — Greek letter
• Persian: خی (xi) — Greek letter
• Polish: chi — Greek letter
• Portuguese: qui — Greek letter
• Russian: хи (xi) — Greek letter
• Serbo-Croatian: хи — Greek letter
• Serbo-Croatian: hi — Greek letter
• Slovak: chí — Greek letter
• Spanish: ji — Greek letter
• Thai: ไค (kai) — Greek letter
• Ukrainian: хі (xi) — Greek letter
• Arabic: تْشِي (tšī) — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Arabic: كِي (kī) — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Chinese Cantonese: 氣 /气 (hei3) — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Chinese: чи (qi) — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Eastern Min Chinese: 氣 /气 (ké) — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Hakka Chinese: 氣 /气 (hi) — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Chinese: 氣 /气 (zh-min-nan) — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Chinese Mandarin: 氣 /气 (qì) — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Wu Chinese: 氣i /气i — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Esperanto: ĉjio — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Finnish: ki — the fundamental life-force or energy
• French: qi — the fundamental life-force or energy
• German: Qi — the fundamental life-force or energy
• German: Ch'i — the fundamental life-force or energy
• German: Ki — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Hebrew: צ׳י (chi) — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Hungarian: csi — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Indonesian: qi — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Japanese: 気 (ki) — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Korean: 기 (gi) — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Macedonian: чи (či) — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Persian: چی (či) — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Polish: chi — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Portuguese: qi — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Portuguese: chi — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Russian: ци (ci) — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Russian: чи (či) — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Russian: ки (ki) — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Serbo-Croatian: чи — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Serbo-Croatian: či — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Swedish: qi — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Turkish: çi — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Turkish: ki — the fundamental life-force or energy
• Vietnamese: khí — the fundamental life-force or energy