different between khi vs khu

English

Noun

khi (plural khis)

1. Alternative spelling of chi (uppercase ?, lowercase ?), 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, ? 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.

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Noun

khi f (plural khis)

1. Chi; the Greek letter ? (lowercase ?).

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ki/

Noun

khi m (plural khi or khis)

1. chi (Greek letter)

Further reading

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

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [xi??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [k??j??] ~ [x?j??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [k??j??] ~ [x?j??]

Etymology 1

Often compared to Chinese ? (MC ??).

Adverb

khi

1. when

Pronoun

khi

1. when

   Synonym: lúc

Etymology 2

Verb

khi

1. to slight, to despise

Zou

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?i??/

Noun

khì

1. necklace

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 40

English

Etymology

Egyptian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku?/

Noun

khu (plural khus)

1. In ancient Egyptian mythology, a part of the soul or spirit which left the body after death.

Anagrams

• kuh

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [xu??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [k??w??] ~ [x?w??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [k??w??] ~ [x?w??]
• (Vinh) IPA^(key): [k?u??]

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from ?.

Noun

khu

1. district, area, zone
2. ward

Derived terms

• khu v?c
• khu ph?

Etymology 2

Compare Chinese ? (OC *[k]??u) (B-S) (SV: khào).

Noun

(classifier cái) khu

1. (North Central Vietnam) buttock, ass/arse