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Xi

//zaɪ// name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    being one more than ten wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A river in China, the western tributary of the Pearl.

    "The most important inland water transport takes place along three great rivers, the Xi-jiang (West River) by Guangzhou (Canton); the Yangzi Jiang, which links Shanghai, Wuhan and Chongqing (Chungking); and the Songhua Jiang (Sungari) which passes through Ha’erbin (Harbin) in the north-east."

  2. 2
    A surname from Chinese
  3. 3
    A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.

    "Daning County is located in the south of Luliang Mountain and west of Linfen City in Shanxi Province. Pu County and Xi County are to the east of Daning County,[...]"

  4. 4
    A surname from Chinese; Xi Jinping, current General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (2012–present).

    "Vice President Xi (pronounced “Shee”), expected to succeed Hu Jintao as president from early 2013, will inherit responsibility for his nation’s far-reaching and sometimes troublesome relationship with the United States."

Noun
  1. 1
    The 14th letter of Classical and Modern Greek. The 15th in Ancient and Old Greek.
  2. 2
    A football (soccer) team of eleven players.

    "Rewind to the first day of the inaugural Premier League season in August 1992 and 177 players – or 73.1% – featuring in first XIs held English nationality. […] Not since Coventry in 1992 has a Premier League side kicked off a campaign with an all-English XI but things have reached the point where, of the 61 signings who have cost the elite division's 20 clubs a transfer fee this summer, only 12 have involved Englishmen."

  3. 3
    Capital Greek letter Ξ (X)
  4. 4
    the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet wordnet
  5. 5
    Either of a pair of hyperons having spin 1/2, which decay into a lambda particle and a pion. particle
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  1. 6
    A cricket team of eleven players.
  2. 7
    Capital Greek letter Ξ (X); Alternative form of xi, Greek letter Ξ/ξ (X/x) alt-of, alternative
  3. 8
    the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one wordnet
  4. 9
    Alternative form of xi/Ξ, ellipsis of xi baryon. alt-of, alternative

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ξεῖ (xeî), ξῖ (xî).

Etymology 2

From translingual XI (“eleven”, Roman numeral).

Etymology 3

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 西 (xī).

Etymology 4

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 習／习 (Xí).

Etymology 5

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 隰 (Xī).

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