Qi

See also: qi, QI, qǐ, qí, qì, and qī

English

Alternative forms

• Ch'i
• Chi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 齊 / 齐 (Qí).

Proper noun

Qi

1. (historical) An ancient Chinese duchy, and later kingdom, under the Zhou dynasty
   • [1908, Edward Harper Parker, Ancient China Simplified‎^[1], London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., →OCLC, page ix, xi:

     In the earlier chapters uncouth proper names are reduced to a minimum, but the Index refers by name to specific places and persons only generally mentioned in the earlier pages. For instance, the states of Lu and Chêng on pages 22 and 29 : it is hard enough to differentiate Ts‘i, Tsin, Ts‘in, and Ts‘u at the outstart, without crowding the memory with fresh names until the necessity for it absolutely arises. […]
     CHOU: at first a principality in South Shen Si and part of Kan Suh, subject to Shang dynasty; afterwards the imperial dynasty itself.
     TS‘IN; principality west of the above. When the Chou dynasty moved its capital east into Ho Nan, Ts‘in took possession of the old Chou principality.
     TSIN : principality (same family as Chou) in South Shan Si (and in part of Shen Si at times).
     TS‘I: principality, separated by the Yellow River from Tsin and Yen; it lay in North Shan Tung, and in the coast part of Chih Li.
     TS‘U : semi-barbarous principality alone preponderant on the Yang-tsz River.]

   • 2021 May 26, Jerome Keating, “The Kinmen and Matsu challenge”, in Taipei Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2021, Editorials‎^[3]:

     Chiseled into rock in Kinmen County’s Jinhu Township (金湖) are the Chinese characters for one of Chiang Kai-shek’s (蔣介石) favorite memes. Translated they read: “Remember our days at Ju” (毋忘在莒), referencing the Warring States period when the armies of the state of Qi were forced to retreat to the city of Ju. Once there, they regrouped and returned to regain their lost territory.

2. A Chinese surname.

Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 祁 (Qí).

Proper noun

Qi

1. A county of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 祁 (zh) (Qí)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: छी (mr) (chī)

Etymology 3

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 淇 (Qí).

Proper noun

Qi

1. A county of Hebi, Henan, China.
   • [1980, Elizabeth J. Perry, “The Red Spears”, in Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945‎^[4], Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 164:

     Opposition to Yüeh’s regime was not limited to Ying-yang. In Ch’i County, located about 120 kilometers to the east, Red Spear resistance was even more pronounced. […] The richest county in Honan, Ch'i had a long history of tax resistance.]

   • 1985, Frank Leeming, Rural China Today‎^[5], Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 95:

     Three communes in Qi county, also in the heart of the plain in north-eastern Henan, have a total of 334 joint-household enterprises involving 1771 households, 6.6% of all households (Ma Renping 1981a).

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 淇 (zh) (Qí)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: छी (mr) (chī)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qi Xian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2545, column 3

Anagrams

• IQ, i.q.