元气 (元氣) yuánqì

  1. yuánqì noun strength; vigor; vitality
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '元氣'; Guoyu '元氣' 2; Mathews 1931 '元氣', p. 74)
  2. yuánqì noun primordial pneuma; original vital breath
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: For example, in Chapter 6 王道 The Way of the King in Scroll 4 of 春秋繁露 “Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals,” attributed to 董仲舒 Dong Zhongshu 179–104 BCE (retranslated from Dong, Queen, and Major tr. 2016, p. 132; CC-CEDICT '元氣'; Guoyu '元氣' 1; Sharf 2005, p. 147)

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