Do you play Scrabble? Or Words With Friends? If so, you know this word, but do you know what it means?
Qi \chee\ , noun;
1. Eastern medicine, martial arts, etc.: Vital energy believed to circulate around the body in currents.
Qi has also been spelled chi or ch'i, depending on which method of Chinese-to-English transcription is in use (qi is pinyin, the others are Wade-Giles). Either way it comes from Chinese 气 (氣), which means "air, breath," and dates to around 1850 in English.
