qi
Vital energy flow
Qi is the vital life force or energy that flows through all living things, a fundamental concept in Chinese philosophy and traditional medicine.
Practices like acupuncture, tai chi, and qigong aim to balance or cultivate qi within the body.
In everyday usage, qi often appears in wellness contexts: The meditation is supposed to improve your qi.
The word is also famously useful in Scrabble as one of the few playable two-letter Q words.
Greek letter or energy
- life forceAnimating vital energy
- vital energyAnimating force within
- pranaVital breath energy
- manaSupernatural indwelling power
pneuma · vitality · energy flow · breath · spirit · essence · vigor · animating force
Therapeutic needle insertion
- meridiansPole-to-pole geographic lines
- acupressureTherapeutic point-pressing technique
- traditional Chinese medicineAncient Eastern healing system
- moxibustionBurning mugwort for healing
cupping · needles · points · channels · reiki · energy healing · bodywork · holistic medicine
Slow Chinese martial practice
- meditationFocused attention practice
- breathworkTherapeutic breathing exercises
- cultivationFostering growth through care
- moving meditationMindful practice through movement
forms · martial arts · practice · master · lineage · transmission · daily practice · morning practice
chi
Greek letter or energy
- life forceAnimating vital energy
- vital energyAnimating force within
- pranaVital breath energy
mana · pneuma · vitality · energy flow · breath · spirit · essence · vigor · animating force · inner strength
acupuncture
Therapeutic needle insertion
- meridiansPole-to-pole geographic lines
- acupressureTherapeutic point-pressing technique
- traditional Chinese medicineAncient Eastern healing system
moxibustion · cupping · needles · points · channels · reiki · energy healing · bodywork · holistic medicine · yin yang
tai chi
Slow Chinese martial practice
- meditationFocused attention practice
- breathworkTherapeutic breathing exercises
- cultivationFostering growth through care
moving meditation · forms · martial arts · practice · master · lineage · transmission · daily practice · morning practice
- Chinese Wordser, san, si, ba, ta
- ChinaBeijing, Shanghai, Great Wall, Yellow River, Chinese calligraphy
- East Asian Culturechopsticks, yin and yang, tea ceremony, origami, kung fu
- spiritghost, specter, phantom, apparition, soul
- Asian loanwordsanime, sushi, karate, ninja, tsunami
- Chinese loanwordsdim sum, kung fu, feng shui, tai chi, yin yang
qimatter
Space-occupying substance with mass
materiality · substance · corporeality · material · physicality
qideath
Cessation of life
lifelessness · stagnation · depletion · inertia · devitalization
Prioritizing goods over spirit
physicalism · mechanism · reductionism · biomedicine · Newtonian physics