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)
  3. yuán qì phrase primordial vital force
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教 , Subdomain: Chinese Buddhism
    Notes: Quote: from 寶藏論 “Treasure Store Treatise” (Amies 2021 tr.; see also Sharf 2005, p. 147; T 1857)

Also contained in

元气和顺 、 大伤元气

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 4 Fa Yuan Zhu Lin 法苑珠林 — count: 5
  • Scroll 1 Discussion on Original Nature 原人論 — count: 5 , has English translation
  • Scroll 1 Yin Chi Ru Jing Zhu 陰持入經註 — count: 4
  • Scroll 8 Sutra of the Collection of the Six Perfections (Liu Du Ji Jing) 六度集經 — count: 3 , has English translation , has parallel version
  • Scroll 6 Records of the Transmission of the Lamp 景德傳燈錄 — count: 3 , has English translation
  • Scroll 19 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 2
  • Scroll 1 Beishan Record 北山錄 — count: 2
  • Scroll 16 Dafang Guang Fo Huayan Jing Sui Shu Yan Yi Chao 大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 — count: 2
  • Scroll 3 Zhi Guan Fu Xing Chuan Hong Jue 止觀輔行傳弘決 — count: 2
  • Scroll 1 Nan Yue Zong Sheng Ji 南嶽總勝集 — count: 2

Collocations

  • 元气始 (元氣始) 元氣始散 — Dafang Guang Fo Huayan Jing Sui Shu Yan Yi Chao 大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔, Scroll 14 — count: 7
  • 元气未 (元氣未) 元氣未分謂之太易 — Dafang Guang Fo Huayan Jing Sui Shu Yan Yi Chao 大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔, Scroll 16 — count: 3
  • 元气生天 (元氣生天) 是元氣生天地耳 — Dafang Guang Fo Huayan Jing Sui Shu Yan Yi Chao 大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔, Scroll 14 — count: 3
  • 裂元气 (裂元氣) 裂元氣使知者不知大朴散矣 — Fo Zu Lidai Tong Zai 佛祖歷代通載, Scroll 10 — count: 2
  • 作元气 (作元氣) 作元氣之祖 — Fo Zu Lidai Tong Zai 佛祖歷代通載, Scroll 21 — count: 2
  • 云元气 (雲元氣) 烟考聲云元氣也垔音因下夏加反韻英云日氣也王逸注楚詞云日始欲出赤黃氣也考聲云天際赤雲也古今正字 — The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義, Scroll 1 — count: 2
  • 呼吸元气 (呼吸元氣) 呼吸元氣行風致雨通氣四支 — Shi Chan Boluomi Cidi Famen 釋禪波羅蜜次第法門, Scroll 8 — count: 2
  • 元气混沌 (元氣混沌) 謂元氣混沌未分 — Dafang Guang Fo Huayan Jing Sui Shu Yan Yi Chao 大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔, Scroll 16 — count: 2
  • 元气鸿 (元氣鴻) 元氣鴻濛而為混沌 — New Commentary on the Zhao Lun 肇論新疏, Scroll 3 — count: 2