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noun

The circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional Chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health. Synonyms: ch'i, chi, qi.

Goddess personifying earth; counterpart of Akkadian Aruru.

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"Ki" Quotes from Famous Books

... Chen-Ki-Souen, "Lencre de China," by Maurice Jametel, appeared in Paris in 1882, but as the title indicates, it is the old "Indian" or ...

— Forty Centuries of Ink • David N. Carvalho

... Regiment their honour concerns themselves only. So far as we were touched, see how correctly we came out of the matter! I think the King should be told; for where could you match such a tale except among us Sikhs? Sri wah guru ji ki Khalsa! Sri wah guru ji ki futteh!' said the ...

— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling

... angarde [eminence] u ils 'estuient Cels de l'ost virent, ki pres furent." Roman de Rou, Second Part, ...

— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... conquests, the Turks pushed on, gaining control of the greater part of the kingdom of Hungary. About 1682, they were pounding at the forts around Vienna. The heroic king of Poland, John Sobieski (so bi es'ki), came to the rescue of the Austrian emperor with an army of Poles and Germans and completely defeated the Turks. He saved Vienna, and ended any further advance of the Turkish rule into Europe. (The map on page 82 shows the high water mark of ...

— The World War and What was Behind It - The Story of the Map of Europe • Louis P. Benezet

... even on the ground many years after they fall. The wood is deliciously fragrant, and fine in grain and texture; it is of a rich cream-yellow, as if formed of condensed sunbeams. Retinospora obtusa, Siebold, the glory of Eastern forests, is called "Fu-si-no-ki" (tree of the sun) by the Japanese; the Sugar Pine is the sun-tree of the Sierra. Unfortunately it is greatly prized by the lumbermen, and in accessible places is always the first tree in the woods to feel their steel. But the regular lumbermen, with their saw-mills, have been, less generally ...

— The Mountains of California • John Muir

Words linked to "Ki" : Red China, energy, mainland China, Semitic deity, Sumer, Communist China, china, vitality, chi, vim, qi, PRC, ch'i, People's Republic of China, Cathay