Pi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pi"

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete): Pe, P'i

Etymology

From Mandarin 郫 (Pí).

Proper noun

Pi

1. (historical) A county of Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
   • 2017, Christian P. Sorace, “The Utopia of Urban Planning”, in Shaken Authority: China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake‎^[1], Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 82:

     In addition to my own residential complex, I also engaged in ethnographic observation and conducted interviews with Party cadres and local residents in four similar apartment complexes in Dujiangyan and two in neighboring Pi County.

Synonyms

• Pixian; Pe Heen, P'i Hsien (obsolete)
• Pidu

Translations

former county in southwestern China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 郫 (zh) (Pí)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pi Xian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[2], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2428, column 2

Anagrams

• IP, Ip

Bourbonnais-Berrichon

Noun

Pi m

1. woodpecker

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [piː]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

Pi n (strong, genitive Pis or Pi, plural Pis)

1. pi (Greek letter)
2. (mathematics) pi, an important constant

   Synonym: Kreiszahl f

Declension

Declension of Pi [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Pi	die	Pis
genitive	eines	des	Pis, Pi	der	Pis
dative	einem	dem	Pi	den	Pis
accusative	ein	das	Pi	die	Pis

Further reading

• “Pi” in Duden online

Latin

Proper noun

Pī

1. genitive/vocative singular of Pius