Reconstructions of the Middle Chinese pronunciation of 氣 standardized to IPA transcription include: /kʰe̯i H/ ( Bernard Karlgren), /kʰĭəi H/ ( Wang Li), /kʰiəi H/ ( Li Rong), /kʰɨj H/ ( Edwin Pulleyblank), and /kʰɨi H/ ( Zhengzhang Shangfang).
Pronunciations of 氣 in Sino-Xenic borrowings include: Japanese ki, Korean gi, and Vietnamese khi. Pronunciations of 氣 in modern varieties of Chinese with standardized IPA equivalents include: Standard Chinese qì /t͡ɕʰi˥˩/, Wu Chinese qi /t͡ɕʰi˧˦/, Southern Min khì /kʰi˨˩/, Eastern Min ké /kʰɛi˨˩˧/, Standard Cantonese hei 3 /hei̯˧/, and Hakka Chinese hi /hi˥/. The logograph 氣 is read with two Chinese pronunciations, the usual qì 氣 "air vital energy" and the rare archaic xì 氣 "to present food" (later disambiguated with 餼). Possible etymologies include the logographs 氣, 气, and 気 with various meanings ranging from "vapor" to "anger", and the English loanword qi or ch'i. The cultural keyword qì is analyzable in terms of Chinese and Sino-Xenic pronunciations. ( January 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification. For the British comedy panel show, see QI. The better we are in finding the equilibrium, the more effective we can be.This article is about the Chinese principle. Yin can turn into yang and yang turns into yin, causing a new state of yin-yang relationship to establish.Ī challenge for us in life is to balance the yin and yang in things we do. Although opposing, they are complementary and interchangeable. This gives a sense of continual movement and interaction of the two energies. Note that the yin-yang symbol is rounded. Yin and yang wax and wane and can be mutually transformed. There are seeds of sadness in happiness and opportunities in every risk. In life, you hardly find a situation which is pure yin or pure yang. This means that yin and yang are rooted in one another. There is always some black and some white. Walking through the diameter of the circle, you will not experience pure black or pure white. Similarly, there is a white dot as if an eye of the black fish. There is a black dot that looks like an eye of the white fish. The black fish is yin, and the white fish is yang. In the circle, there are two fish-like features. The black color represents the yin energy, and the white color represents the yang. The symbol is in the shape of a circle and consists of two colors. The symbol illustrates a state of yin-yang balance, which can be found in all existence, from natural phenomena, social order, to functions of our body. The yin and yang symbol, as shown on the left, is known also as the symbol of 'Tai Chi' - the Chinese word that literally means 'ultimate potentiality'. Knowing how the yin and yang energies can be altered helps us to have a better control of reality.īy altering the yin-yang relationship, you can make the energy towards your advantage, or strike a new balance that are often helpful to all parties involved. Managing yin yang is something that we have to do all the time. Yang, on the other hand, is active, bright and masculine. Generally, yin is passive, oppressed and feminine. Sadness is yin, while joyfulness is yang. The earth we live on is yin, and the sun that brings us warmth is yang. The head cannot exist without the tail, and the tail cannot exist without the head.Įverything in this world is a dualism. The state of life is illustrated by the yin-yang symbol known also as the tai chi symbol.īefore talking about yin-yang balance, let's find out what yin and yang mean. Achieving yin-yang balance helps you to stay healthy, happy and fulfilled.
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