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chi

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/kaɪ/ English

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noun

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets.

noun

  1. A life force in traditional Chinese philosophy, culture, medicine, etc, related (but not limited) to breath and circulation.

noun

  1. The Chinese foot, a traditional Chinese unit of length based on the human forearm.
  2. (Mainland China) The Chinese unit of length standardized in 1984 as 1/3 of a meter.
  3. (Taiwan) The Taiwanese unit of length standardized as 10/33 of a meter, identical to the Japanese shaku.
  4. (Hong Kong) The chek or Hong Kong foot, a unit of length standardized as 0.371475 meters.

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