Chi
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Chi may refer to:
Chinese chi is an energy or form of life
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Japanese
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in fiction and popular culture
CHI may stand for:
Chinese chi is an energy or form of life
- Chi (length) (尺) , a traditional Chinese unit of length ("Chinese foot"), approximately 1/3 of a meter
- Chi (mythology)Chi (mythology)Chi means either "a hornless dragon" or "a mountain demon" in Chinese mythology. Hornless dragons were a common motif in ancient Chinese art, and the chiwen 螭吻 Chi means either "a hornless dragon" or "a mountain demon" (namely, chimei 螭魅) in Chinese mythology. Hornless dragons were a common...
(螭), a dragon in Chinese mythology - Ch'i or qi (氣), "life-force" in Chinese culture
Greek
- Chi (letter)Chi (letter)Chi is the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet, pronounced as in English.-Greek:-Ancient Greek:Its value in Ancient Greek was an aspirated velar stop .-Koine Greek:...
, the Greek letter (uppercase Χ, lowercase χ);
Japanese
- Chi (kana)Chi (kana)ち, in hiragana, or チ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both are phonemically although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is ....
, a Japanese kana - 地, Japanese character for Earth
other
- Chi RiverChi RiverThe Chi River is the longest river in Thailand; it extends 765 km, but carries less water than the second longest river, the Mun. In the Isan dialect of this region, and also in the adjacent language Lao, the name of the river is actually pronounced "Nam Si" but the transliteration Chi...
, Thailand - Chi, a god in Igbo mythology
in science
- A probability distribution in mathematics:
- Chi distribution
- Chi-squared distribution
- Chi siteChi siteA Chi site or Chi sequence is a short stretch of DNA in the genome of a bacterium near which homologous recombination is unusually likely to occur. Chi sites serve as stimulators of DNA double-strand break repair in bacteria, which can arise from radiation or chemical treatments, or result from...
, a DNA sequence that serves as a recombination hot spot - Creatinine height ratio, a metric used in determining body compositionBody compositionIn physical fitness, body composition is used to describe the percentages of fat, bone and muscle in human bodies. Because muscular tissue takes up less space in our body than fat tissue, our body composition, as well as our weight, determines leanness...
- A symbol for electronegativityElectronegativityElectronegativity, symbol χ , is a chemical property that describes the tendency of an atom or a functional group to attract electrons towards itself. An atom's electronegativity is affected by both its atomic number and the distance that its valence electrons reside from the charged nucleus...
in fiction and popular culture
- Chi (magazine)Chi (magazine)Chi is an Italian weekly gossip magazine, based in Segrate, Milan, Italy.It's published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, the biggest Italian publishing company.-Photo of Princess Diana:...
, an Italian magazine - Chi (Chobits)Chi (Chobits)is a fictional character in the manga series Chobits, and its anime adaptation. She is a Chobit, a type of persocom that is far more technologically advanced than regular persocoms, and who are said to possess true machine intelligence rather than relying on the execution of pre-loaded software...
, a character in Chobits media - Chi, a character in Chi's Sweet HomeChi's Sweet Homeis a New York Times best-selling manga series written and illustrated by Kanata Konami. It has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Morning since 2004. The manga has been licensed for North American distribution by Vertical Inc. To date, it has been collected in eight volumes,...
media - "Chi", a song by Korn from Life Is PeachyLife Is PeachyLife Is Peachy is the second studio album by the American nu metal band Korn, released on October 15, 1996 through Immortal/Epic Records. Following the success of their 1994 self-titled debut, Korn earned a second double platinum album in the United States, certified by the Recording Industry...
- Cationic Hydration Interlink (CHI), a beauty products company owned by Farouk ShamiFarouk ShamiFarouk Shami is a Palestinian-American businessman from Ramallah, West Bank, who now lives in Houston, Texas, where he runs the hair-care and spa products company, Farouk Systems....
CHI may stand for:
- ChileChileChile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
, the country. - Carvill Hurricane IndexCarvill Hurricane IndexThe Carvill Hurricane Index is an index which describes the potential for damage from an Atlantic hurricane. The CHI is used as the basis for trading hurricane futures and options on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange .- Index Calculation :...
, a measure of hurricane damage potential - Catholic Health InitiativesCatholic Health InitiativesCatholic Health Initiatives is a faith-based, non-profit health system. It is the second largest Catholic health system in the United States and the fifth largest US health system overall....
, a faith-based, non-profit health system - Channel IslandsChannel IslandsThe Channel Islands are an archipelago of British Crown Dependencies in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They include two separate bailiwicks: the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey...
(Chapman code: CHI) - ChichesterChichesterChichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, within the historic County of Sussex, South-East England. It has a long history as a settlement; its Roman past and its subsequent importance in Anglo-Saxon times are only its beginnings...
, England, is known as Chi by local people in West Sussex - Chingford railway stationChingford railway stationChingford Station stands on the edge of Epping Forest, and serves the suburb of Chingford in North-east London.- History :The Eastern Counties Railway had begun its venture into a main line railway that would head north to compete with the Great Northern...
, railway station code - Child Health InternationalChild Health InternationalChild Health International is a Winchester -based charity, with a proven record of success in improving the healthcare of children in Russia, Eastern Europe and a new project to help children with cystic fibrosis in India...
, a UK based charity for children's health (especially Cystic Fibrosis) in poor countries - Columbia HelicoptersColumbia HelicoptersColumbia Helicopters, Incorporated, or CHI, is an aircraft manufacturing and operator company based in Aurora, Oregon, United States. They are known for operating tandem rotor helicopters; in present times, exclusively the Boeing Vertol 107 and Boeing 234. These helicopters are used in...
, an American aircraft manufacturer - Commission for Health ImprovementCommission for Health ImprovementThe Commission for Health Improvement was a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department of Health of the United Kingdom from 2001 until 2004, when its functions were subsumed by the Healthcare Commission....
, a former non-departmental public body of the Department of Health in the United Kingdom - Computer-human interaction or human-computer interaction, the study of the interaction of computers and people
- CHI (conference)CHI (conference)The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems series of academic conferences is generally considered the most prestigious in the field of human–computer interaction. It is hosted by ACM SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group on computer–human interaction. CHI has been held annually since...
, an annual conference on computer-human interaction
- CHI (conference)
- CHI, a secret society at Longwood University
- CHI, the IATA code for all Chicago airports
- CHI, the AmtrakAmtrakThe National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak , is a government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971, to provide intercity passenger train service in the United States. "Amtrak" is a portmanteau of the words "America" and "track". It is headquartered at Union...
code for Chicago Union Station - Canada Health InfowayCanada Health InfowayCanada Health Infoway is an independent, federally-funded, not-for-profit organization tasked with accelerating the development of electronic health records across Canada. As a strategic investor, they work with Canadian provinces and territories with the goal of creating an electronic health...
, a not-for-profit organization engaged in the development of a pan-Canadian electronic health record (EHR) system - Community Health IndexCommunity Health IndexThe Community Health Index is a numerical index developed by Lithium Technologies to measures the "health" of online communities. It is often abbreviated as CHI, and sometimes denoted by the Greek letter χ. The value of CHI ranges from 0 to 1,000, where 0 represents communities with poor health and...
, a measure of the health of online communities - Community Health Index (Scotland)Community Health Index (Scotland)The Community Health Index is a register of all patients in NHS Scotland, Scotland's publicly funded healthcare system. The register exists to ensure that patients can be correctly identified, and that all information pertaining to a patient's health is available to providers of care.Patients are...
, a system of patient identification used in Scottish public healthcareNHS ScotlandNHS Scotland is the publicly funded healthcare system of Scotland. Although they are separate bodies the organisational separation between NHS Scotland and the other three healthcare organisations each commonly called the National Health Service in the United Kingdom tends to be hidden from its...
Sports
- Chicago BlackhawksChicago BlackhawksThe Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . They have won four Stanley Cup championships since their founding in 1926, most recently coming in 2009-10...
, a professional NHL ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois, United States]
People with the given name
- Chi Cheng (musician)Chi Cheng (musician)Chi Cheng, is a Chinese American musician, best known as the bass guitarist for the American band Deftones.-Personal life:...
(born 1970), American musician - Chi McBrideChi McBrideKenneth "Chi" McBride is an American actor. He starred as Steven Harper on the series Boston Public, as Emerson Cod on Pushing Daisies, and recently appeared in Fox's drama Human Target.-Early life:...
(born 1961), American actor - Chi OnwurahChi OnwurahChinyelu Susan "Chi" Onwurah is a British Labour Party politician, who was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne Central, replacing the previous Labour MP Jim Cousins, who decided to step down...
(born 1965), British Labour Party Politician
See also
- T'ai chi ch'uan, Wade-Giles transcription for Taijiquan
- ChicagoChicagoChicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, known as Chi-Town - A Song for ChiA Song for Chi"A Song for Chi" is an instrumental alternative metal song recorded by several high profiled rock and metal musicians to raise money for poet and Deftones bassist Chi Cheng who was involved in a car accident in Santa Clara, CA, on November 4, 2008 which left Cheng in a coma, later it was revealed...
, an instrumental rock song - Qi (disambiguation)Qi (disambiguation)In Chinese culture:* Qi refers to "life force"* Qi , a minor state within China until 445 BC* Qi , a Chinese state founded 1046 BC* Qi , a small state in northwest China, 907 - 924...