Chi vs Soul - What's the difference?
chi | soul |
The twenty-second letter of the Classical]] and [[Modern Greek, Modern Greek alphabets.
(label) A life force in traditional Chinese philosophy, culture, medicine, etc. related (but not limited) to breath and circulation
* 2001 — , Artemis Fowl , p 196
The Chinese foot, a traditional Chinese unit of length based on the human forearm
(Mainland China) The Chinese unit of length standardized in 1984 as 1/3 of a meter.
(Taiwan) The Taiwanese unit of length standardized as 10/33 of a meter, identical to the Japanese shaku.
(Hong Kong) The chek or Hong Kong foot, a unit of length standardized as 0.371475 meters.
(religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death.
* 1836 , (Hans Christian Andersen) (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), (The Little Mermaid)
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or
The spirit or essence of anything.
* , chapter=22
, title= Life, energy, vigor.
* Young
(music) Soul music.
A person, especially as one among many.
An individual life.
As a noun chi
is chi (greek letter).As an adjective soul is
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English
Etymology 1
From the classical (la) transcription of the ancient Greek pronunciation /k?i/Alternative forms
* khiNoun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From former romanizations of (etyl) (zh)Alternative forms
* ki, qiNoun
(-)Usage note
As this is based on former romanizations of Chinese, one should be careful to distinguish its pronunciation from pinyin chi .Etymology 3
From the pinyin romanization of (cmn) (zh)Alternative forms
* chih, ch'ihNoun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* (sense) Chinese foot * (Taiwan) Taiwanese foot * (Hong Kong) Hong Kong foot, chekAnagrams
* ----soul
English
(wikipedia soul)Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) (the Scandinavian forms are borrowings from the Old English).Alternative forms
* sowl (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- "Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul', nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal ' soul , can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul . The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
- That he wants algebra he must confess; / But not a soul to give our arms success.
- Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.