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ki

/kiː/ · noun

Meaning

  1. Ti, a plant native to the Pacific islands and China, Cordyline fruticosa.
  2. (naval slang) Cocoa (the drink).
  3. The twenty-second letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets.
  4. A life force in traditional Chinese philosophy, culture, medicine, etc, related (but not limited) to breath and circulation.
  5. The Chinese foot, a traditional Chinese unit of length based on the human forearm.
  6. (Mainland China) The Chinese unit of length standardized in 1984 as 1/3 of a meter.
  7. (Taiwan) The Taiwanese unit of length standardized as 10/33 of a meter, identical to the Japanese shaku.
  8. (Hong Kong) The chek or Hong Kong foot, a unit of length standardized as 0.371475 meters.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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