胎氣

Chinese

Etymology 1

		fetus; litter	gas; air; smell gas; air; smell; weather; vital breath; to make sb. angry; to get angry; to be enraged
trad. (胎氣)		胎	氣
simp. (胎气)		胎	气

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tāiqì

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄞ ㄑㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): toi¹ hei³
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ¹the-chi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tāiqì
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄞ ㄑㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: taicì
    • Wade–Giles: tʻai¹-chʻi⁴
    • Yale: tāi-chì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: taichih
    • Palladius: тайци (tajci)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaɪ̯⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: toi¹ hei³
    • Yale: tōi hei
    • Cantonese Pinyin: toi¹ hei³
    • Guangdong Romanization: toi¹ héi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɔːi̯⁵⁵ hei̯³³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ¹the-chi
    • MiniDict: the^平 chi
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹the-qi
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /tʰe⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi²¹/

Noun

胎氣

1. (traditional Chinese medicine) symptoms, such as oedema, nausea and vomiting, when experienced during pregnancy
2. (traditional Chinese medicine) nourishing aether for the foetus; peaceful atmosphere that a foetus has

   動了胎氣 [MSC, trad.]
   动了胎气 [MSC, simp.]

   dòng le tāiqì [Pinyin]

   to have disrupted the nourishing aether for the foetus (and start to have signs and symptoms of a threatened miscarriage or premature birth)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 胎氣 – see 呔氣 (“air in a tire”). (This term is a variant form of 呔氣).