Si

Si

1. (chemistry) Chemical symbol for silicon.

From clipping of various words beginning with the syllable /saɪ/.

• IPA^(key): /saɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ

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• Homophones: sigh, sie, sai, psi, xi, scye, Sy, Cy, Si

Si

1. A diminutive of the male given name Simon.
2. A diminutive of the male given name Silas.

• Sy

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 泗 (Sì) and Mandarin 肆 (Sì).

• IPA^(key): /sɪ/, /sə/

Si

1. A river in Shandong, China.
2. A county of Suzhou, Anhui, China.
   • [2018 December 26, Mandy Zuo, “Christmas linked to China’s past humiliation by foreign invaders in speech to primary schoolchildren”, in South China Morning Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 October 2024, China/People & Culture:

     Dong Xuefeng, head of the Huangwei Township Central School in Sixian County, Anhui province, told a school gathering on Monday that Christmas was a disgrace to the Chinese people because of past humiliations inflicted on the nation by mostly Christian invaders.]

   • 2022 July 4, Sophie Yu, Stella Qiu, Ryan Woo, “Eastern China cities tighten COVID curbs as new clusters emerge”, in William Mallard, editor, Reuters‎^[2], archived from the original on 05 July 2022, Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals‎^[3]:

     Si county in Anhui province locked down its 760,000 residents and suspended public traffic as it reported 288 cases on Saturday.

   • 2022 July 5, Zixu Wang, “Covid Outbreak Emerges in China’s Anhui Province”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 July 2022, The Coronavirus Pandemic‎^[5]:

     Most of Anhui’s cases were identified in Suzhou’s Si County, where on Wednesday the authorities ordered its 760,000 residents to refrain from going out unless it was necessary.

3. (historical) Various prefectures of imperial China.

• Su, Ssu

• (county): Sixian, Ssu-hsien
• (prefectures): Sizhou, Ssu-chou

• enPR: sē

Si

1. Alternative form of Xi.

• “Si”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• 'is, I's, IS, Is, i's, is, is-, is.

See si (“they”). Cognate with German Sie.

Si

1. (polite) you (singular and plural)

Compare East Franconian Si, German Sinn.

Si m

1. (Erzgebirgisch) sense
2. (Erzgebirgisch) meaning, sense
3. (Erzgebirgisch) point, idea, tenor
4. (Erzgebirgisch) mind, consciousness
5. (Erzgebirgisch) feeling

• Christian Friedrich Röder, Erzgebirgiſche Zufriedenheit http://andreas-romeyke.de/BunteBilder/bunte_bilder.chunked/ch88.html

• IPA^(key): /ziː/
• Homophone: si
• Rhymes: -iː

From Proto-West Germanic *sīdā, from Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ.

Si f (plural Sijje) (Eupen)

1. (geometry, and in general) side (a bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape)

   Synonym: Kaïnt

2. (geometry) face, side, surface of any three-dimensional object
3. page (single leaf of any manuscript or book)
4. side (one of the two surfaces of a sheet of paper)
5. one side or half of something or someone
6. (figuratively) a certain aspect of a concept
7. (figuratively) side, faction or group of competitors in a war, game, conflict or any other competitive situation in opposite to their opponents
8. face of a coin or dice

From Old Limburgish sīda, from Medieval Latin sīda, sēta, from Latin saeta (“horsehair; bristle; silk”).

Si f (plural Sijje) (Eupen)

1. silk
2. Any of several parasitic vines, of the genus Cuscuta, having small white flowers but no leaves; dodder.