QI in Mandarin Chinese is polysemous. Its meanings deal with human bodily experiences of motion, and motions of objects, as well as human conceptions of time and quantity. This research aims to analyze the meanings of QI in factive motion events.... The method was to obtain 1,945 sentences from three corpora in which the word QI is used: the Mandarin Chinese Corpus of the Center for Chinese Linguistics, Peking University; the Mandarin Chinese Corpus of the Beijing Language and Culture University

The purpose of this article is to study and analyze figurative meaning of “QI” in mandarin Chinese when the word “QI” is used as a metaphor. It also explains the metaphorical process of "QI" according to the theory of cognitive linguistics... on the subject about conceptual integration. The results showed that a total of 85 words that contain the term “QI” as a metaphor were found. The metaphorical meaning of the word “QI” in Chinese could be separated into 3 main meanings, including the meaning about

QI in Mandarin Chinese is polysemous. Its meanings deal with human bodily experiences of motion, and motions of objects, as well as human conceptions of time and quantity. This research aims to analyze the meanings of QI in factive motion events.... The method was to obtain 1,945 sentences from three corpora in which the word QI is used: the Mandarin Chinese Corpus of the Center for Chinese Linguistics, Peking University; the Mandarin Chinese Corpus of the Beijing Language and Culture University

China is a country with a civilization and culture that has been passed down for thousands of years by the “旗” (flag) “袍” (long robe), combined as “旗袍” (Qi Pao in Chinese Mandarin), but in Thailand it is pronounced as "Ki-pao" (as pronounced... in Teochew Chinese), which means a long robe. The Qi Pao is the Chinese national costume. It is a Chinese dress that has existed since ancient times and regarded as an important cultural heritage of China. It is one of the reflections of an outstanding