tai chi chuan
- noun
- /taɪ tʃi tʃwɑn/
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tai chi chuan
- He attends weekly classes to learn Tai Chi Chuan, which helps him improve his balance and flexibility.
And so it's like Tai chi Chuan, right?
- And so it's like Tai chi Chuan, right?
Examples
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After graduate school, Rohini returned to her hometown of Boston and opened a successful Tai Chi Chuan school in Cambridge.
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While practicing Tai Chi Chuan, she had a powerful experience of floating, wholeness, and freedom; when not practicing, she felt small and incomplete.
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She wanted the experience she had practicing Tai Chi Chuan all the time, even when cleaning the toilet.
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When I get burned out from thinking, sometimes I like to do embodied stuff like Tai Chi Chuan or meditate.
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After a long day at work, she enjoys practicing Tai Chi Chuan in the park to relax and unwind.
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Many people find that Tai Chi Chuan promotes better health and a sense of inner peace.
Synonyms
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A slow, gentle Chinese exercise that uses smooth movements to relax and improve balance
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A Chinese exercise of slow gentle movements for relaxation and balance
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Slow gentle movements that relax the body and improve balance and health
A slow Chinese exercise of gentle body movements and breathing to relax and improve balance
A Chinese gentle exercise of slow movements and calm breathing that improves balance
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Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a Sino-Chinese compound and a cultural loanword: knowing 'chi' (life energy) and 'Tai' (a Tai-related adjective) gives a partial clue that the term relates to Chinese bodily/energy practice, but 'chuan' is not a transparent English word here and the exact sense ‘slow meditative physical exercise / martial-art form’ is culturally specific. The meaning is partially inferable from the constituents but requires prior exposure or cultural knowledge to recover the full, conventional sense.
Etymology
Tai chi chuan comes from Chinese words: Tai chi stands for the idea of two opposite forces working together and chuan means 'fist'. Long ago, fighters used slow, flowing 'fist' movements to train balance and calm the mind, so today Tai chi chuan usually means the slow exercises that improve 'balance' and 'relaxation'.