chi
名词 n.
发音 chē
英文释义
名词 n.
- The twenty-second letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets.
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A life force in traditional Chinese philosophy, culture, medicine, etc, related (but not limited) to breath and circulation.
— Early Taoist philosophers and alchemists regarded ch'i as a vital force inhering in the breath and bodily fluids and developed techniques to alter and control the movement of ch'i within the body; their aim was to achieve physical longevity and spiritual power.
- The Chinese foot, a traditional Chinese unit of length based on the human forearm.
- Clipping of chihuahua.
- The Chinese unit of length standardized in 1984 as ¹/₃ of a meter.
- The Taiwanese unit of length standardized as ¹⁰/₃₃ of a meter, identical to the Japanese shaku.
- The chek or Hong Kong foot, a unit of length standardized as 0.371475 meters.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From Latin chī, from Ancient Greek χεῖ (kheî).
词源 2
From the Mandarin 氣/气 (qì) from the Wade–Giles romanization: chʻi⁴, from Middle Chinese 氣 (MC khj+jH), from Old Chinese 氣 (OC *kʰɯds, “breath, vapor”). Compare modern Japanese 気(き) (ki), Korean 기(氣) (gi) and Vietnamese khí (氣).
词源 3
From the pinyin romanization of Mandarin 尺 (chǐ). Doublet of chek.
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