chii

From Japanese 吃 (chī)

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: chi (life force)

chii (plural chiis)

1. (Japanese mahjong) A call for forming a run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit using a discarded tile.

   Synonym: chow

Among English-speaking players of the Japanese variant of mahjong, chii is more commonly used than the original English term chow. Unlike chow, chii is not typically used to refer to a group of three consecutive tiles, which is usually called a sequence instead.

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chii

1. Rōmaji transcription of ちい

From Proto-Mixtec *tìxí.

chii

1. belly

chii

1. under
2. inside

• Beaty de Farris, Kathryn, et al. (2012) Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 46)‎^[1] (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 5–6