khi

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.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈki/

khi f (plural khis)

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

• IPA^(key): /ki/

khi m (plural khi or khis)

1. chi (Greek letter)

• “khi” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [xi˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kʰɪj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [kʰɪj˧˧] ~ [xɪj˧˧]

khi

1. when

khi

1. when

khi

1. to slight, to despise