ci

Meanings

1. One of the Classical Chinese poetry forms

1. Initialism of civil infraction.
2. Initialism of cochlear implant.
3. Initialism of competitive intelligence.
4. Initialism of contextual inquiry.
5. Initialism of Companion, part of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India.
6. Initialism of corporate identity (“a specific design of a company, to be applied in all public appearances to be clearly distinguishable from its competitors”).
7. Initialism of creative industries.
8. Initialism of cast iron.
9. Initialism of corner infielder.
10. Initialism of counterintelligence.
11. Initialism of chief inspector, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
12. Initialism of confidential informant or criminal informant.

1. Abbreviated form of cylindrical inclusion.

1. An orthographic ⟨ci⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the consonant /ʃ/, as in the word "delicious".

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 詞／词 (cí).