Pi

• (obsolete): Pe, P'i

From Mandarin 郫 (Pí).

• enPR: pē^[1]
• Homophones: P, p, pea, pee

Pi

1. (historical) A county of Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
   • 1978 November 27 [1978 November 19], “Szechwan Peasants Elect Production Team Leader By Secret Ballot”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 228, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengtu Szechwan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Southwest Region, page J 1:

     Pi County has brought democracy into full play. The peasants there are electing production team leaders and other production team cadres by secret ballot.

   • 1983, Cheng-yün Liu, The Ko-lao Hui in Late Imperial China‎^[1], →OCLC, page 133:

     [...]water carriers, the sedanchair carriers, the pawn brokers, and even the manure collectors in a market town in Pi county, Szechwan in the late Ch'ing period.

   • 2017, Christian P. Sorace, “The Utopia of Urban Planning”, in Shaken Authority: China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake‎^[2], 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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Pi.

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

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

• IP, Ip

Pi m^[1]

1. woodpecker

• IPA^(key): [piː]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Rhymes: -iː

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

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

   Synonym: Kreiszahl f

• “Pi” in Duden online

Pī

1. genitive/vocative singular of Pius