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Qi (Ch'i)
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Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Burmese name
Burmese အသက်
IPA aasaat
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabet khí
Thai name
Thai ลมปราณ
RTGS lmprāṇ
Korean name
Hangul
Hanja
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic хийг
Mongolian script ᠬᠡᠢ ᠶᠢ
Japanese name
Kyūjitai
Shinjitai
Malay name
Malay chi
Indonesian name
Indonesian chi
Filipino name
Tagalog qi
Lao name
Lao ຊີວິດ
Khmer name
Khmer ឈី
Tetum name
Tetum qi

In traditional Chinese culture, or ch'i (About this sound , also known as khí in Vietnamese culture, gi in Korean culture, ki in Japanese culture) is an active principle forming part of any living thing.Qi literally translates as "breath", "air", or "gas", and figuratively as "material energy", "life force", or "energy flow".Qi is the central underlying principle in traditional Chinese medicine and martial arts.

Concepts similar to qi can be found in many cultures: prana in Hinduism (and elsewhere in Indian culture), chi in the Igbo religion, pneuma in ancient Greece, mana in Hawaiian culture, lüng in Tibetan Buddhism, manitou in the culture of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, ruah in Jewish culture, and vital energy in Western philosophy.


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