"chi" meaning in Vietnamese

See chi in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

IPA: [t͡ɕi˧˧] [Hà-Nội], [t͡ɕɪj˧˧] [Huế], [cɪj˧˧] [Hồ-Chí-Minh-City] Forms: [CJK]
Etymology: Cognate with gì (the form affected by lenition) and Muong Bi chi. Etymology templates: {{m|vi|gì}} gì, {{cog|mtq|-}} Muong, {{m|mtq|chi}} chi Head templates: {{head|vi|adverb|||head=|tr=之}} chi • (之), {{vi-adv|之}} chi • (之)
  1. (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) what for Tags: Central, Southern, Vietnam
    Sense id: en-chi-vi-adv-20Qa-ypa Categories (other): Central Vietnamese, Southern Vietnamese
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Noun

IPA: [t͡ɕi˧˧] [Hà-Nội], [t͡ɕɪj˧˧] [Huế], [cɪj˧˧] [Hồ-Chí-Minh-City]
Etymology: Sino-Vietnamese word from 支 (“branch; to spend”). Etymology templates: {{m|vi|支|t=branch; to spend}} 支 (“branch; to spend”), {{categorize|vi|Sino-Vietnamese words}}, {{vi-etym-sino|支|branch; to spend}} Sino-Vietnamese word from 支 (“branch; to spend”) Head templates: {{head|vi|noun|||head=|tr=}} chi, {{vi-noun}} chi
  1. (taxonomy) genus Categories (topical): Taxonomy, Finance Synonyms: giống
    Sense id: en-chi-vi-noun-snufSo6u Disambiguation of Finance: 4 48 23 2 23 Categories (other): Sino-Vietnamese words, Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header, Vietnamese links with redundant wikilinks, Vietnamese nouns without classifiers, Vietnamese pronouns Disambiguation of Sino-Vietnamese words: 36 31 34 Disambiguation of Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header: 2 46 28 2 22 Disambiguation of Vietnamese links with redundant wikilinks: 2 64 18 1 15 Disambiguation of Vietnamese nouns without classifiers: 60 25 15 Disambiguation of Vietnamese pronouns: 7 44 17 19 14 Topics: biology, natural-sciences, taxonomy Related terms: vực (english: domain), liên giới (english: domain), giới (english: kingdom), ngành (english: phylum), lớp [class], bộ (english: order), họ (english: family), giống (english: genus), loài (english: species), chi bộ, chi cục, chi đoàn, chi đội, chi nhánh, chi uỷ Related terms (Taxonomy): phân loại sinh học
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: [t͡ɕi˧˧] [Hà-Nội], [t͡ɕɪj˧˧] [Huế], [cɪj˧˧] [Hồ-Chí-Minh-City]
Etymology: Sino-Vietnamese word from 肢. Etymology templates: {{m|vi|肢|t=}} 肢, {{categorize|vi|Sino-Vietnamese words}}, {{vi-etym-sino|肢}} Sino-Vietnamese word from 肢 Head templates: {{head|vi|noun|||head=|tr=}} chi, {{vi-noun}} chi
  1. (formal, anatomy, chiefly zoology) a limb Tags: formal Categories (topical): Anatomy, Zoology Derived forms: chi sau, chi trước, đầu óc ngu si, tứ chi phát triển
    Sense id: en-chi-vi-noun-mE8U-XI4 Categories (other): Sino-Vietnamese words Disambiguation of Sino-Vietnamese words: 36 31 34 Topics: anatomy, biology, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences, zoology
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Pronoun

IPA: [t͡ɕi˧˧] [Hà-Nội], [t͡ɕɪj˧˧] [Huế], [cɪj˧˧] [Hồ-Chí-Minh-City] Forms: [CJK]
Etymology: Cognate with gì (the form affected by lenition) and Muong Bi chi. Etymology templates: {{m|vi|gì}} gì, {{cog|mtq|-}} Muong, {{m|mtq|chi}} chi Head templates: {{head|vi|pronoun|head=|tr=之}} chi • (之), {{vi-pronoun|之}} chi • (之)
  1. (Central Vietnam, literary elsewhere) what; whatever Tags: Central, Vietnam Synonyms: Derived forms: chi mô, chưa chi, hèn chi, huống chi, không có chi
    Sense id: en-chi-vi-pron-DTiXvB6w Categories (other): Central Vietnamese
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Verb

IPA: [t͡ɕi˧˧] [Hà-Nội], [t͡ɕɪj˧˧] [Huế], [cɪj˧˧] [Hồ-Chí-Minh-City]
Etymology: Sino-Vietnamese word from 支 (“branch; to spend”). Etymology templates: {{m|vi|支|t=branch; to spend}} 支 (“branch; to spend”), {{categorize|vi|Sino-Vietnamese words}}, {{vi-etym-sino|支|branch; to spend}} Sino-Vietnamese word from 支 (“branch; to spend”) Head templates: {{head|vi|verb|||head=|tr=}} chi, {{vi-verb}} chi
  1. to spend (money); to pay out; to disburse Related terms: chi phí, chi tiêu, thu chi
    Sense id: en-chi-vi-verb-EXyABKDf Categories (other): Sino-Vietnamese words Disambiguation of Sino-Vietnamese words: 36 31 34
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Download JSON data for chi meaning in Vietnamese (8.7kB)

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "支",
        "t": "branch; to spend"
      },
      "expansion": "支 (“branch; to spend”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "Sino-Vietnamese words"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "categorize"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "支",
        "2": "branch; to spend"
      },
      "expansion": "Sino-Vietnamese word from 支 (“branch; to spend”)",
      "name": "vi-etym-sino"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Sino-Vietnamese word from 支 (“branch; to spend”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "head": "",
        "tr": ""
      },
      "expansion": "chi",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chi",
      "name": "vi-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Vietnamese",
  "lang_code": "vi",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "vi",
          "name": "Taxonomy",
          "orig": "vi:Taxonomy",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Evolutionary theory",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "36 31 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Sino-Vietnamese words",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "2 46 28 2 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "2 64 18 1 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Vietnamese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "60 25 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Vietnamese nouns without classifiers",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "7 44 17 19 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Vietnamese pronouns",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "4 48 23 2 23",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "vi",
          "name": "Finance",
          "orig": "vi:Finance",
          "parents": [
            "Business",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "genus"
      ],
      "id": "en-chi-vi-noun-snufSo6u",
      "links": [
        [
          "taxonomy",
          "taxonomy"
        ],
        [
          "genus",
          "genus"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(taxonomy) genus"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "sense": "Taxonomy",
          "word": "phân loại sinh học"
        },
        {
          "english": "domain",
          "word": "vực"
        },
        {
          "english": "domain",
          "word": "liên giới"
        },
        {
          "english": "kingdom",
          "word": "giới"
        },
        {
          "english": "phylum",
          "word": "ngành"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "class"
          ],
          "word": "lớp"
        },
        {
          "english": "order",
          "word": "bộ"
        },
        {
          "english": "family",
          "word": "họ"
        },
        {
          "english": "genus",
          "word": "giống"
        },
        {
          "english": "species",
          "word": "loài"
        },
        {
          "word": "chi bộ"
        },
        {
          "word": "chi cục"
        },
        {
          "word": "chi đoàn"
        },
        {
          "word": "chi đội"
        },
        {
          "word": "chi nhánh"
        },
        {
          "word": "chi uỷ"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "giống"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "taxonomy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕi˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Hà-Nội"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕɪj˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Huế"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[cɪj˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Hồ-Chí-Minh-City"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chi"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "支",
        "t": "branch; to spend"
      },
      "expansion": "支 (“branch; to spend”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "Sino-Vietnamese words"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "categorize"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "支",
        "2": "branch; to spend"
      },
      "expansion": "Sino-Vietnamese word from 支 (“branch; to spend”)",
      "name": "vi-etym-sino"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Sino-Vietnamese word from 支 (“branch; to spend”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "verb",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "head": "",
        "tr": ""
      },
      "expansion": "chi",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chi",
      "name": "vi-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Vietnamese",
  "lang_code": "vi",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "36 31 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Sino-Vietnamese words",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to spend (money); to pay out; to disburse"
      ],
      "id": "en-chi-vi-verb-EXyABKDf",
      "links": [
        [
          "spend",
          "spend"
        ],
        [
          "pay out",
          "pay out"
        ],
        [
          "disburse",
          "disburse"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "chi phí"
        },
        {
          "word": "chi tiêu"
        },
        {
          "word": "thu chi"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕi˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Hà-Nội"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕɪj˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Huế"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[cɪj˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Hồ-Chí-Minh-City"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chi"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "肢",
        "t": ""
      },
      "expansion": "肢",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "Sino-Vietnamese words"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "categorize"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "肢"
      },
      "expansion": "Sino-Vietnamese word from 肢",
      "name": "vi-etym-sino"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Sino-Vietnamese word from 肢.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "head": "",
        "tr": ""
      },
      "expansion": "chi",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chi",
      "name": "vi-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Vietnamese",
  "lang_code": "vi",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "vi",
          "name": "Anatomy",
          "orig": "vi:Anatomy",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Medicine",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "vi",
          "name": "Zoology",
          "orig": "vi:Zoology",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "36 31 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Sino-Vietnamese words",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "chi sau"
        },
        {
          "word": "chi trước"
        },
        {
          "word": "đầu óc ngu si, tứ chi phát triển"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a limb"
      ],
      "id": "en-chi-vi-noun-mE8U-XI4",
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "zoology",
          "zoology"
        ],
        [
          "limb",
          "limb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(formal, anatomy, chiefly zoology) a limb"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "biology",
        "medicine",
        "natural-sciences",
        "sciences",
        "zoology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕi˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Hà-Nội"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕɪj˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Huế"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[cɪj˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Hồ-Chí-Minh-City"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chi"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "gì"
      },
      "expansion": "gì",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mtq",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Muong",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mtq",
        "2": "chi"
      },
      "expansion": "chi",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Cognate with gì (the form affected by lenition) and Muong Bi chi.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "之",
      "tags": [
        "CJK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "pronoun",
        "head": "",
        "tr": "之"
      },
      "expansion": "chi • (之)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "之"
      },
      "expansion": "chi • (之)",
      "name": "vi-pronoun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Vietnamese",
  "lang_code": "vi",
  "pos": "pron",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Central Vietnamese",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "chi mô"
        },
        {
          "word": "chưa chi"
        },
        {
          "word": "hèn chi"
        },
        {
          "word": "huống chi"
        },
        {
          "word": "không có chi"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "What are you doing over there?",
          "text": "Mi mần chi rứa?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Love comes and goes. Why be sad? Why be tormented by it?",
          "ref": "(Can we date this quote?), “Tình đến rồi đi [Love Comes and Goes]”, performed by Thu Thủy",
          "text": "Cuộc tình đến rồi đi. Buồn làm chi nhung nhớ làm gì.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "what; whatever"
      ],
      "id": "en-chi-vi-pron-DTiXvB6w",
      "links": [
        [
          "what",
          "what"
        ],
        [
          "whatever",
          "whatever"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "literary elsewhere",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Central Vietnam, literary elsewhere) what; whatever"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "gì"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Central",
        "Vietnam"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕi˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Hà-Nội"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕɪj˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Huế"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[cɪj˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Hồ-Chí-Minh-City"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chi"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "gì"
      },
      "expansion": "gì",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mtq",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Muong",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mtq",
        "2": "chi"
      },
      "expansion": "chi",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Cognate with gì (the form affected by lenition) and Muong Bi chi.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "之",
      "tags": [
        "CJK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "adverb",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "head": "",
        "tr": "之"
      },
      "expansion": "chi • (之)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "之"
      },
      "expansion": "chi • (之)",
      "name": "vi-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Vietnamese",
  "lang_code": "vi",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Central Vietnamese",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Southern Vietnamese",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "What did you do that for?",
          "text": "Làm vậy chi?",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "what for"
      ],
      "id": "en-chi-vi-adv-20Qa-ypa",
      "links": [
        [
          "what for",
          "what for"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) what for"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Central",
        "Southern",
        "Vietnam"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕi˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Hà-Nội"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕɪj˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Huế"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[cɪj˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Hồ-Chí-Minh-City"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chi"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Sino-Vietnamese words",
    "Vietnamese adverbs",
    "Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Vietnamese lemmas",
    "Vietnamese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Vietnamese nouns",
    "Vietnamese nouns without classifiers",
    "Vietnamese pronouns",
    "Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Vietnamese verbs",
    "vi:Finance",
    "zom:Botany",
    "zom:Minerals"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "支",
        "t": "branch; to spend"
      },
      "expansion": "支 (“branch; to spend”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "Sino-Vietnamese words"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "categorize"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "支",
        "2": "branch; to spend"
      },
      "expansion": "Sino-Vietnamese word from 支 (“branch; to spend”)",
      "name": "vi-etym-sino"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Sino-Vietnamese word from 支 (“branch; to spend”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "head": "",
        "tr": ""
      },
      "expansion": "chi",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chi",
      "name": "vi-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Vietnamese",
  "lang_code": "vi",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "sense": "Taxonomy",
      "word": "phân loại sinh học"
    },
    {
      "english": "domain",
      "word": "vực"
    },
    {
      "english": "domain",
      "word": "liên giới"
    },
    {
      "english": "kingdom",
      "word": "giới"
    },
    {
      "english": "phylum",
      "word": "ngành"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ],
      "word": "lớp"
    },
    {
      "english": "order",
      "word": "bộ"
    },
    {
      "english": "family",
      "word": "họ"
    },
    {
      "english": "genus",
      "word": "giống"
    },
    {
      "english": "species",
      "word": "loài"
    },
    {
      "word": "chi bộ"
    },
    {
      "word": "chi cục"
    },
    {
      "word": "chi đoàn"
    },
    {
      "word": "chi đội"
    },
    {
      "word": "chi nhánh"
    },
    {
      "word": "chi uỷ"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "vi:Taxonomy"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "genus"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "taxonomy",
          "taxonomy"
        ],
        [
          "genus",
          "genus"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(taxonomy) genus"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "giống"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "taxonomy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕi˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Hà-Nội"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕɪj˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Huế"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[cɪj˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Hồ-Chí-Minh-City"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chi"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Sino-Vietnamese words",
    "Vietnamese adverbs",
    "Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Vietnamese lemmas",
    "Vietnamese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Vietnamese nouns",
    "Vietnamese nouns without classifiers",
    "Vietnamese pronouns",
    "Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Vietnamese verbs",
    "vi:Finance",
    "zom:Botany",
    "zom:Minerals"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "支",
        "t": "branch; to spend"
      },
      "expansion": "支 (“branch; to spend”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "Sino-Vietnamese words"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "categorize"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "支",
        "2": "branch; to spend"
      },
      "expansion": "Sino-Vietnamese word from 支 (“branch; to spend”)",
      "name": "vi-etym-sino"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Sino-Vietnamese word from 支 (“branch; to spend”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "verb",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "head": "",
        "tr": ""
      },
      "expansion": "chi",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chi",
      "name": "vi-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Vietnamese",
  "lang_code": "vi",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "chi phí"
    },
    {
      "word": "chi tiêu"
    },
    {
      "word": "thu chi"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to spend (money); to pay out; to disburse"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "spend",
          "spend"
        ],
        [
          "pay out",
          "pay out"
        ],
        [
          "disburse",
          "disburse"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕi˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Hà-Nội"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕɪj˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Huế"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[cɪj˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Hồ-Chí-Minh-City"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chi"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Sino-Vietnamese words",
    "Vietnamese adverbs",
    "Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Vietnamese lemmas",
    "Vietnamese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Vietnamese nouns",
    "Vietnamese nouns without classifiers",
    "Vietnamese pronouns",
    "Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "vi:Finance",
    "zom:Botany",
    "zom:Minerals"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "chi sau"
    },
    {
      "word": "chi trước"
    },
    {
      "word": "đầu óc ngu si, tứ chi phát triển"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "肢",
        "t": ""
      },
      "expansion": "肢",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "Sino-Vietnamese words"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "categorize"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "肢"
      },
      "expansion": "Sino-Vietnamese word from 肢",
      "name": "vi-etym-sino"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Sino-Vietnamese word from 肢.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "head": "",
        "tr": ""
      },
      "expansion": "chi",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chi",
      "name": "vi-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Vietnamese",
  "lang_code": "vi",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Vietnamese formal terms",
        "vi:Anatomy",
        "vi:Zoology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a limb"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "zoology",
          "zoology"
        ],
        [
          "limb",
          "limb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(formal, anatomy, chiefly zoology) a limb"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "biology",
        "medicine",
        "natural-sciences",
        "sciences",
        "zoology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕi˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Hà-Nội"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕɪj˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Huế"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[cɪj˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Hồ-Chí-Minh-City"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chi"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Vietnamese adverbs",
    "Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Vietnamese lemmas",
    "Vietnamese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Vietnamese pronouns",
    "Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "vi:Finance",
    "zom:Botany",
    "zom:Minerals"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "chi mô"
    },
    {
      "word": "chưa chi"
    },
    {
      "word": "hèn chi"
    },
    {
      "word": "huống chi"
    },
    {
      "word": "không có chi"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "gì"
      },
      "expansion": "gì",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mtq",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Muong",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mtq",
        "2": "chi"
      },
      "expansion": "chi",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Cognate with gì (the form affected by lenition) and Muong Bi chi.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "之",
      "tags": [
        "CJK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "pronoun",
        "head": "",
        "tr": "之"
      },
      "expansion": "chi • (之)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "之"
      },
      "expansion": "chi • (之)",
      "name": "vi-pronoun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Vietnamese",
  "lang_code": "vi",
  "pos": "pron",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Central Vietnamese",
        "Requests for date",
        "Vietnamese literary terms",
        "Vietnamese terms with quotations",
        "Vietnamese terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "What are you doing over there?",
          "text": "Mi mần chi rứa?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Love comes and goes. Why be sad? Why be tormented by it?",
          "ref": "(Can we date this quote?), “Tình đến rồi đi [Love Comes and Goes]”, performed by Thu Thủy",
          "text": "Cuộc tình đến rồi đi. Buồn làm chi nhung nhớ làm gì.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "what; whatever"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "what",
          "what"
        ],
        [
          "whatever",
          "whatever"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "literary elsewhere",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Central Vietnam, literary elsewhere) what; whatever"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "gì"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Central",
        "Vietnam"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕi˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Hà-Nội"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕɪj˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Huế"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[cɪj˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Hồ-Chí-Minh-City"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chi"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Vietnamese adverbs",
    "Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Vietnamese lemmas",
    "Vietnamese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Vietnamese pronouns",
    "Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "vi:Finance",
    "zom:Botany",
    "zom:Minerals"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "gì"
      },
      "expansion": "gì",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mtq",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Muong",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mtq",
        "2": "chi"
      },
      "expansion": "chi",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Cognate with gì (the form affected by lenition) and Muong Bi chi.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "之",
      "tags": [
        "CJK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "adverb",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "head": "",
        "tr": "之"
      },
      "expansion": "chi • (之)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "之"
      },
      "expansion": "chi • (之)",
      "name": "vi-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Vietnamese",
  "lang_code": "vi",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Central Vietnamese",
        "Southern Vietnamese",
        "Vietnamese terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "What did you do that for?",
          "text": "Làm vậy chi?",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "what for"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "what for",
          "what for"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) what for"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Central",
        "Southern",
        "Vietnam"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕi˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Hà-Nội"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕɪj˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Huế"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[cɪj˧˧]",
      "tags": [
        "Hồ-Chí-Minh-City"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chi"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Vietnamese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.