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noun

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The correct spelling is chis. The twenty-second letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets.

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noun

  1. 1.The twenty-second letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets.
  2. 2.A life force in traditional Chinese philosophy, culture, medicine, etc, related (but not limited) to breath and circulation.
  3. 3.The Chinese foot, a traditional Chinese unit of length based on the human forearm.
  4. 4.(Mainland China) The Chinese unit of length standardized in 1984 as 1/3 of a meter.
  5. 5.(Taiwan) The Taiwanese unit of length standardized as 10/33 of a meter, identical to the Japanese shaku.

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