Chi

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Chi may refer to:

Chinese

• Chi (length) (尺), a traditional Chinese unit of length ("Chinese foot"), approximately 1/3 of a meter
• Chi (mythology) (螭), a dragon in Chinese mythology
• Ch'i or qi (氣), "energy force" in Chinese culture
• Di (Chinese concept) (地), "earth" in Chinese culture

Greek

• Chi (letter), the Greek letter (uppercase Χ, lowercase χ);

Japanese

• Chi (kana), a Japanese kana (hirigana ち, katakana チ)

other

• Chi River, Thailand
• Chi, a god in Igbo mythology

In science

• Named after the Greek letter:
  • Chi distribution, in mathematics
  • Chi-squared distribution, in mathematics
  • Chi site, a DNA sequence that serves as a recombination hot spot
  • A symbol for electronegativity
• Creatinine height ratio, a metric used in determining body composition
• Hyperbolic cosine integral

in fiction and popular culture

• Chi (magazine), an Italian magazine
• Chi (Chobits), a character in Chobits media
• Chi, a character in Chi's Sweet Home media
• "Chi", a song by Korn from Life Is Peachy
• Cationic Hydration Interlink (CHI), a beauty products company owned by Farouk Shami

Uppercase

CHI may stand for:

• Chile, the country.
• Carvill Hurricane Index, a measure of hurricane damage potential
• Catholic Health Initiatives, a faith-based, non-profit health system
• Channel Islands (Chapman code: CHI)
• Chichester, England, is known as Chi by local people in West Sussex
• Chingford railway station, railway station code
• Child Health International, a UK-based charity for children's health (especially Cystic Fibrosis) in poor countries
• Columbia Helicopters, an American aircraft manufacturer
• Commission for Health Improvement, 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), an annual conference on computer-human interaction
• CHI, a secret society at Longwood University
• CHI, the IATA code for all Chicago airports
• CHI, the Amtrak code for Chicago Union Station
• Canada Health Infoway, a not-for-profit organization engaged in the development of a pan-Canadian electronic health record (EHR) system
• Community Health Index, a measure of the health of online communities
• Community Health Index (Scotland), a system of patient identification used in Scottish public healthcare
• Closed head injury

Sports

• Chicago Bears, a professional National Football League (NFL) team based in Chicago, Illinois
• Chicago Blackhawks, a professional National Hockey League (NHL) ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois
• Chicago Bulls, a professional National Basketball Association (NBA) team based in Chicago, Illinois

People with the given name

• Chi Cheng (musician) (1970-2013), American musician
• Chi McBride (born 1961), American actor
• Chi Onwurah (born 1965), British Labour Party Politician

See also

• T'ai chi ch'uan, Wade–Giles transcription for Taijiquan
• Chicago, known as Chi-Town
• A Song for Chi, an instrumental rock song
• Qi (disambiguation)

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