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"Energy", or vital life energy.
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"Energy", or vital life energy.
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This is the phonetic English form of two Pinyin terms:
Qi (气 or 氣), which means "energy", or vital life energy.
These two ideas are often confused because of this phonetic similarity.
One system of romanization used for Chinese words.
To help avoid confusion, Chinese linguists developed this "standard" system of romanization. Personally, I don't think it worked.