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t'ai chi ch'uan

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
t'ai chi ch'uan /ˌtʌɪtʃiː ˈtʃwɑːn/ (also t'ai chi)

▶noun

1 a Chinese martial art and system of callisthenics, consisting of sequences of very slow controlled movements.

2 (in Chinese philosophy) the ultimate source and limit of reality, from which spring yin and yang and all of creation.

– origin Chin., lit. ‘great ultimate boxing’.

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