Pronunciation
Other spellings include in simplified Chinese: wikt:气; traditional Chinese: 氣; Mandarin Pinyin: qì; Wade–Giles: ch'i; Jyutping: hei, Qi is pronounced /ˈtʃiː/ in English and in Standard Chinese; Korean: gi; Japanese: ki; Vietnamese: khí, ) The approximate English pronunciation of qi, similar to "chee" in cheese, should also be distinguished from the pronunciation of the Greek letter chi, which has a hard c sound, like "c" in car, and a long i, similar to other Greek letters phi, psi, xi. Copied by Bengin from Sweden.
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