Qi‐gongの英語

別の表記

• qi gong; chi kung (廃れた用法)

語源

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 氣功／气功 (qìgōng, “breath work, qi work”)

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /tʃiːˈɡɒŋ/, /tʃiːˈkʊŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /tʃiˈɡɔŋ/, /tʃiˈɡʊŋ/
• 韻: -ɒŋ, -ʊŋ

名詞

qigong (usually uncountable, 複数形 qigongs)

1. (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.

関連する語

• Ba Duan Jin

Further reading

• qigong at OneLook Dictionary Search
• qigong, qi gong, chi kung at Google Ngram Viewer