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Arts and entertainment

* ''Xi'' (alternate reality game), a console-based game * Xi, Japanese name for the video game '' Devil Dice''


Language

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Xi (letter) Xi is the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet (uppercase Ξ, lowercase ξ; el, ξι), representing the voiceless consonant cluster . It is pronounced in Modern Greek, and generally or in English. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value ...
, a Greek letter * Xi, a Latin digraph used in British English to write the sound


People

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Xi (surname) __NOTOC__ Xi ( ; ) is the romanization in Pinyin of several different Chinese family names, including: * (; see Chinese Wikipedia article) * (; see Chinese Wikipedia article) * (; see Chinese Wikipedia article) * (; see Chinese Wikipedia arti ...
, any of several Chinese surnames **
Xi Jinping Xi Jinping ( ; ; ; born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus as the paramount leader of China, ...
, current paramount leader of China


Places

* Xi (state), an ancient Chinese state during the
Shang The Shang dynasty (), also known as the Yin dynasty (), was a Chinese royal dynasty founded by Tang of Shang (Cheng Tang) that ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and ...
and Zhou Dynasties *
Xi County, Henan Xi County or Xixian () is a county in the southeast of Henan province, China. It is the northernmost county-level division of Xinyang Xinyang (; postal: Sinyang) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Henan province, People's Republic of Ch ...
, China *
Xi County, Shanxi Xi County or Xixian () is a county in the southwest of Shanxi province, China. It is located in the northwest of the administrative area of the prefecture-level city of Linfen. The county spans an area of , and according to the 2010 Chinese Cens ...
, China *
Xi River The Xi River (; ) or Si-Kiang is the western tributary of the Pearl River in southern China. It is formed by the confluence of the Gui and Xun Rivers in Wuzhou, Guangxi. It originates from the eastern foot of the Maxiong Mountain in Qujin ...
, western tributary of the Pearl River in southern China


Other uses

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Xi (business) ''Xi'' () is a form of business organization in China where a group of companies are controlled by a private equity fund, forming an investment group. Definition The term can be translated as business group or a conglomerate. However there is a co ...
, a Chinese form of business organization *
Xi baryon The Xi baryons or ''cascade particles'' are a family of subatomic hadron particles which have the symbol and may have an electric charge () of +2 , +1 , 0, or −1 , where is the elementary charge. Like all conventional baryo ...
, a range of baryons with one up or down quark and two heavier quarks * Xi, a brand name for the 4G LTE mobile telecommunications service operated by NTT DoCoMo in Japan * Xi (apartment), a brand name for some apartments constructed by GS Construction in Korea.


See also

* XI (disambiguation) *
11 (disambiguation) Eleven or 11 may refer to: *11 (number), the natural number following 10 and preceding 12 * one of the years 11 BC, AD 11, 1911, 2011, or any year ending in 11 Literature * ''Eleven'' (novel), a 2006 novel by British author David Llewellyn *''E ...
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Kumo Xi The Kumo Xi (Xu Elina-Qian, p.296b), also known as the Tatabi, were a Mongolic steppe people located in current Northeast China from 207 CE to 907 CE. After the death of their ancestor Tadun in 207, they were no longer called Wuhuan but joined ...
, an ancient Mongolic people * Shuang Xi (双喜, written 囍), a Chinese calligraphic design *
Hsi (disambiguation) HSI may refer to: Science and technology * Hardware Security Integration *HSI color space, used in computer vision applications * Heterosubtypic immunity * High Speed Interconnect, a Nvidia computer chip * Horizontal shaft impactor, a type of ro ...
— "Xi" and "Hsi" are different transliterations of the same sound in
Mandarin Chinese Mandarin (; ) is a group of Chinese (Sinitic) dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of the phonology of Standard Chinese, the official language ...
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