qigong
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 氣功/气功 (qìgōng, “breath work, qi work”)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /tʃiːˈɡɒŋ/, /tʃiːˈkʊŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /tʃiˈɡɔŋ/, /tʃiˈɡʊŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɒŋ, -ʊŋ
Noun
[edit]qigong (usually uncountable, plural qigongs)
- (fitness, alternative medicine) A Chinese system of breathing control, physical exercise and meditation. [from 20th c.]
- 1998 May, Li HongZhi, CHINA FALUN GONG (REVISED EDITION) (English Version)[1], Hong Kong: Falun Fo Fa Publishing Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 29:
- Some people may suddenly speak a language and speak it quite fluently. However, it is not a language of human society. What can it be called? It can be called "cosmic language" (宇宙語). Actually it is nothing but a language of subtle beings in a space only a little bit higher than ours. Now quite a few of qigong practitioners in China have had such an experience. Some can even speak several such languages.
- 2004, Judith Orloff, Positive Energy, page 112:
- My patients laud qigong as a stressbuster and cure for pesky chronic symptoms that baffle doctors.
Related terms
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[edit]system of breathing control
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Further reading
[edit]- “qigong”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- qigong, qi gong, chi kung at the Google Ngram Viewer.
Portuguese
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[edit]qigong m (uncountable)
- (alternative medicine) qigong (a Chinese system of body movement and meditation)
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