What does piʻi mean in Hawaiian?
Piʻi is to go upward — to climb a slope, and to rise in the sense of a tide, a temperature or a feeling. It pairs with iho, to descend.
Say it PEE-ee. Every vowel is pronounced, and the capitalized syllable takes the stress. The ʻokina (ʻ) is a short catch in the voice, like the break in “uh-oh”. The pronunciation guide covers the rules.
On this site piʻi is part of 1 names: 1 begin with it, 0 end with it. Most are boy names, and all of them sit in the group of Hawaiian names meaning mountain.