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Qi
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Appendix:Variations of "qi"
English
state of Qi
Alternative forms
en Ch'i
en Chi
Pronunciation
en /t͡ʃiː/
chēen 1952 Chihsien or Ch’i-hsien Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 393 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/393/ 1
en iː 1
Etymology 1
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 齊 Qí.
Proper noun
en historic An ancient Chinese duchy, and later kingdom, under the Zhou dynasty
en 1908 w:Edward Harper Parker Ancient China Simplified https://archive.org/details/ancientchinasimp00park_0/ London w:Chapman & Hall, Ltd. 563512600 ix, xi https://archive.org/details/ancientchinasimp00park_0/page/n14/ 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. on
en May 26, 2021 Jerome Keating The Kinmen and Matsu challenge w:Taipei Times 1563-9525 464696902 https://web.archive.org/web/20210525163721/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2021/05/26/2003758054 25 May 2021 Editorials Chiseled into rock in Kinmen County’s Jinhu Township (zh 金湖) are the Chinese characters for one of Chiang Kai-shek’s (zh 蔣介石) favorite memes. Translated they read: “Remember our days at Ju” (zh 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.
en Chinese.
Etymology 2
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 祁 Qí.
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Jinzhong province/Shanxi c/China.
Translations
county
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 祁 Qí
Japanese: ja
Marathi: mr छी
Etymology 3
Qi County, Hebi
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 淇 Qí.
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Hebi province/Henan c/China.
en 1980 w:Elizabeth J. Perry The Red Spears Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945 https://archive.org/details/rebelsrevolution0000perr/ Stanford, California w:Stanford University Press 0-8047-1175-5 803060884 164 https://archive.org/details/rebelsrevolution0000perr/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. on
en 1985 Frank Leeming Rural China Today https://archive.org/details/ruralchinatoday0000leem/ w:Longman 0-582-30144-0 83-25617 1087938030 3182902M 95 https://archive.org/details/ruralchinatoday0000leem/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: cmn 淇 Qí
Japanese: ja
Marathi: mr छी
References
Further reading
en 1998 Qi Xian Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2545 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2545/ 3
Anagrams
en iq IQ i.q.