khi

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See also: khí, khỉ, khì, and KHI

Translingual

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Symbol

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khi

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Khoisan languages.

English

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Noun

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khi (plural khis)

  1. Alternative spelling of chi (uppercase Χ, lowercase χ), the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
    • 1898, Claude Reignier Conder, The Hittites and Their Language, W. Blackwood and Sons, page 249:
      It is known, from the existence in his time1 of the Delphic tripod, that all these letters existed in 480 B.C. ; but on that monument the Khi and Psi differ from the forms used later.
    • 1963, Thomas Albert Sebeok, Current Trends in Linguistics, Mouton, page 404:
      The letters upsilon, phi, khi, psi, δ were Greek additions
    • 2006, Jonathan M. Hall, A History of the Archaic Greek World, Blackwell Publishing, page 57:
      Greek scripts display notable local characteristics — principally with regard to the shape of letters but also in the matter of the phonetic values attributed to signs such as san, sigma, khi, and psi.

Catalan

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Noun

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khi f (plural khis)

  1. chi; the Greek letter Χ (lowercase χ)

French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ki/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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khi m (plural khi or khis)

  1. chi (Greek letter)

Further reading

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Vietnamese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Cognate with Muong Bi khây.

Often compared to Chinese (MC gi), however, there is a register mismatch.

Adverb

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khi ()

  1. when

Pronoun

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khi ()

  1. when
    Synonym: lúc

Etymology 2

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Sino-Vietnamese word from .

Verb

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khi

  1. to slight, to despise

Zou

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Khi.

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Noun

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khì

  1. necklace

References

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  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 40