Category: t’ai chi

tai chi  (t?? ch??, j??) or tai chi chuan (chwän?)n. A Chinese martial art whose system of physical exercises is often practiced as a way of meditating or improving well-being.[From Mandarin tài jí quán (formerly romanized t’ai chi ch’üan) : tài jí, great ultimate (a concept in Chinese cosmology) (from Middle Chinese thaj` k?i??k : thaj`, very great, greatest + k?i??k, ridge-pole, pole, extremity) + quán, boxing (from Middle Chinese k?yan, fist).]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

tai chi  (t?? ch??, j??) or tai chi chuan (chwän?)n. A Chinese martial art whose system of physical exercises is often practiced as a way of meditating or improving well-being.[From Mandarin tài jí quán (formerly romanized t’ai chi ch’üan) : tài jí, great ultimate (a concept in Chinese cosmology) (from Middle Chinese thaj` k?i??k : thaj`, very great, greatest + k?i??k, ridge-pole, pole, extremity) + quán, boxing (from Middle Chinese k?yan, fist).]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

T’ai Chi – Short for T’ai Chi Ch’uan, it is Chinese for “extreme limit” or “great supreme absolute,” and constitutes the source and limit of life force.See also related terms for limit.Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.