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ci

ci noun: one of the Classical Chinese poetry forms.

Noun (1)

ci (uncountable)

  1. One of the Classical Chinese poetry forms

Noun (2) capitalized: CI

CI (countable and uncountable, plural CIs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of civil infraction.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of cochlear implant.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of competitive intelligence.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of contextual inquiry.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Companion, part of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India.
  6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of corporate identity (“a specific design of a company, to be applied in all public appearances to be clearly distinguishable from its competitors”).
  7. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of creative industries.
  8. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of cast iron.
  9. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of corner infielder.
  10. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of counterintelligence.
  11. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of chief inspector, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
  12. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of confidential informant or criminal informant.
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  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of continuous integration.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of confidence interval.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of comprehensible input.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of constitutional initiative.
    • Three of the Montana professionals who signed onto the Oct. 17 letter spoke in a news conference about the letter and why they were supporting CI-128 and urging others to do so as well.2024 October 17, Blair Miller, “More than 250 Montana medical professionals sign letter supporting CI-128”, in Daily Montanan

Proper noun capitalized: Ci

Ci

  1. A county of Handan, Hebei, China.

Noun (3) capitalized: cI

cI (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviated form of cylindrical inclusion.

ci meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

ci in Hindi

सी. आई, सी. आइ

ci in Tamil

சி. ஐ, சிஐ

ci in Urdu

سی آئی

ci in Bengali

সি. আই, সি আই
More languagesFewer languages
ci in Telugu
సి. ఐ, సిఐ
ci in Malayalam
സി. ഐ, സി ഐ
ci in Kannada
ಸಿ. ಐ, ಸಿಐ
ci in Punjabi
ਸੀ. ਆਈ
ci in Gujarati
સી. આઈ, સી. આઇ
ci in Odia
ସି. ଆଇ
ci in Nepali
सीआई

Forms of ci

pluralCIs

Origin of ci

Borrowed from Mandarin 詞/词 (cí).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 磁縣 /磁县 (Cíxiàn).

Words formed from ci

Phrases with ci

Questions about ci

What does ci mean?
Ci means one of the Classical Chinese poetry forms.
What is ci in Hindi?
Ci in Hindi is सी. आई, सी. आइ. See Ci meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is ci?
Ci can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of ci?
The plural of ci is CIs.

Words near ci in the dictionary

  1. Chūō
  2. Chūō-ku
  3. Chʻien-tʻang
  4. Chʼortiʼ
  5. Ch’eng-pei
  6. ci
  7. cI protein
  8. cI proteins
  9. ci-devant
  10. CI/CD
  11. cia

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ci (page history and authors); CI (page history and authors); Ci (page history and authors); cI (page history and authors); ci (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ci (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ci (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ci (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ci (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ci (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ci (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ci (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ci (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ci (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ci (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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