Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

xi

/zaɪ/ noun, proper noun

Forms xis Hsi Si

noun The 14th letter of Classical and Modern Greek. The 15th in Ancient and Old Greek.
noun (particle physics) Either of a pair of hyperons having spin 1/2, which decay into a lambda particle and a pion.
noun (soccer) A football (soccer) team of eleven players.
noun (cricket) A cricket team of eleven players.
proper noun A river in China, the western tributary of the Pearl.
proper noun A surname from Chinese
proper noun Xi Jinping, current General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (2012–present).
proper noun A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
noun Capital Greek letter Ξ (X)

Synonyms

From Ancient Greek ξεῖ (xeî), ξῖ (xî).

From translingual XI (“eleven”, Roman numeral).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 西 (xī).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 習／习 (Xí).

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “xi”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details