chi
noun
the twenty-second letter of the Greek alphabet (X, χ).
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chi
1 American
[kahy]
/ kaɪ /
noun
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chis
plural
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the twenty-second letter of the Greek alphabet (X, χ).
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the consonant sound represented by this letter.
chi
2
American
[chee]
/ tʃi /
noun
Wade-Giles.
Chi
3
American
[chahy]
/ tʃaɪ /
noun
Ch'i
4
American
[chyee]
/ tʃji /
(Pinyin)
Qi
noun
chi
1
British
/ kaɪ /
noun
chi
2
British
/ tʃiː /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of chi1
From Greek
Origin of Chi3
By shortening
Example Sentences
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After we talk, she plans to do a bit of tai chi, for which she uses an app on her phone and which she wishes more people practiced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
But drought struck the region in the early 2020s — shrinking the streams where the chi spawn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake catch and tag the chi to better understand their behavior.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
That’s one of the guiding principles behind tai chi, a hundreds-year-old Chinese martial arts practice that today is considered a form of meditative movement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
They moved through t’ai chi to more ordinary exercises, such as running in place and toe touching.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
"The deeper question is why the same diet has opposite consequences in two adjacent parts of the gut. That is what we are working to understand next," Chi says.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Each group allegedly stole an average of four to 10 cats per night, according to a police statement in Ho Chi Minh City police department's official newspaper.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Kimi Chi, a salesman from the central city of Taichung, had travelled through the night to be able to photograph the aircraft landing in Taitung.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
This aspect mirrors a frightening contemporary pattern reflected in the Cornell case, in which an alleged Snapchat thread from the Chi Phi house is presented as evidence.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
Ho Chi Minh and his communist allies gained control of North Vietnam, with their capital in Hanoi.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
Like Quemoy 's 100,000-man garrison, Cheng Ch'i is a refugee from the China mainland having fled Kiangsi province in 1949 before the conquering Red tide.
From Time Magazine Archive
China this week celebrated a memorable anniversary: San Ch'i, "Triple Seven," or the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh year of resistance to Japan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ching, Duke of Ch'i, had a thousand teams of horses; but the people, on his death day, found no good in him to praise.
From The Sayings Of Confucius by Leonard Arthur Lyall
Then Lu Ch’i in a firm voice answered: “I have consecrated my life to the hard labour of study, and wish to attain to the dignity of minister on this earth.”
From Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
Not only Ch’i, but all the adjacent kingdoms were flooded; all sustained grievous damage except Ch’i, where the Page 207necessary precautions had been taken.
From Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
I was given opportunity to present to our comparatively small public the freshly minted words, die, chis, and chim, as common gender pronouns, designed to avoid certain awkward situations frequently arising in English composition.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many of the chals and chis to be met with in “Lavengro” and “The Romany Rye” were transferred to the pages of those works from the East p. 71Anglian heaths and fairsteads.
From George Borrow in East Anglia by William A. (William Alfred) Dutt
"Where," I asked, "are the Romany chals and the Romany chis?"
From The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure by A. Conan Doyle
This last-mentioned fact is the more striking in view of the intense admiration often felt for the handsome chis by men who were not of the gipsy race.
From George Borrow in East Anglia by William A. (William Alfred) Dutt
How many? kwén-chis; how many people? ko-nái-ya; how many dollars? ko-nai chis ngun dolla; how much money have you? ko-nai te chin dolla.
From Alphabetical Vocabularies of the Clallum and Lummi by George Gibbs
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