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chi

1

[ kahy ]

noun

, plural chis.
  1. the twenty-second letter of the Greek alphabet (X, χ).
  2. the consonant sound represented by this letter.


chi

2

[ chee ]

noun

, Wade-Giles.

Chi

3

[ chahy ]

noun

Ch'i

4

[ chyee ]

noun

  1. one of two dynasties that ruled in China a.d. 479–502 and, as the Northern Ch'i, a.d. 550–77.

chi

1

/ tʃiː /

noun

  1. sometimes capital (in Oriental medicine, martial arts, etc) vital energy believed to circulate round the body in currents
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


chi

2

/ kaɪ /

noun

  1. the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet (Χ, χ), a consonant, transliterated as ch or rarely kh
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of chi1

From Greek

Origin of chi2

By shortening
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Word History and Origins

Origin of chi1

Chinese, literally: energy
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Example Sentences

Instead of a corsage, he brought me a plastic duck he'd stolen from a Chi Chi's restaurant.

Local food cultures are rising up everywhere, not just in yuppified suburbs and chi-chi cities.

One is on African primal religions, another on the tao of T'ai Chi Ch'uan, another on the path to total rejuvenation.

By now I'm so overwrought with chi's and fu's and kong's and kung's that my eyes have about crossed.

T'ai Chi is internal and soft, versus karate, which is external and hard.

For he knew who had triggered those three today, who the Chi torpedo the cops wanted was.

He began likewise to sing the little air, Chi rende alla meschina; and was this, thought I, merely to ridicule me?

E chi ne assicura, che il Boccaccio non fosse nato nella sua villa di Corbignano quivi poco distante?

All that region abounds in sweet, wild apples, from which the Indians concoct a fermented liquor which they call chi-chi.

At that moment Wu Chi was being confronted by his wife, who stood before him in his inner chamber.

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