Pinyin–english glossary of chinese terms

General

Ba Kuo image Eight Ramparts

Bao image Uterus in women and Room of Sperm in men

Bao Luo image Uterus Channel

Bao Mai image Uterus Vessel

Ben image Root

Bian Bing image Identification of the disease

Bian Zheng image Identification of patterns

Biao image Manifestation

Chan Ru image Puerperium

Cou Li image Cavities and texture (also space between the skin and muscles)

Cun image Cun (acupuncture unit of measurement)

Dan Tian image Field of Elixir

Fen Rou image Fat and muscles

Fu Superficial layer of skin

Gao image Fat Tissue

Ge image Deep layer of skin

Huang image Membranes

Ji image Subcutaneous muscles

Jie image ‘Streets’, ‘avenues’, ‘crossroads’ (symbols for channels of the abdomen controlled by the Penetrating Vessel)

Jin image Sinews

Jing Gong image Palace of Sperm (or Palace of Essence)

Jing Guan image Sperm Gate

Jing Shi image Room of Sperm (or Essence)

Ju Ci image Opposite needling

Liu Qi image Six Climates

Liu Xie image Six Evils (external pathogenic factors)

Liu Yin image Six Excesses (excessive climates)

Miu Ci image Contralateral needling

Mu Xi image Eye System

Ni (Qi) image Rebellious Qi

Qi Ji image Qi Mechanism

Qi Jie image Pathways of Qi

Qing image Emotion

Rou image Muscles or flesh

San Bing image Three Diseases (of puerperium)

San Chong image Three Rebellions (of puerperium)

San Ji image Three Emergencies (of puerperium)

San Shen image Three Questions (of puerperium)

Shan Zhong image Centre of the thorax

Shao Fu image Lateral, lower abdominal area

Shao Huo image Lesser Fire

Shun (Qi) image Conforming Qi (as opposed to rebellious Qi)

Tian image Heaven (or Heavenly)

Wu Lun image Five Wheels

Xiang image Image

Xiao Fu image Central, lower abdominal area

Xie image Pathogenic factor

Xie Lei image Hypochondrium

Xie Qi image Pathogenic factor

Xin xia image Area below the xyphoid process

Xu Li image Great Connecting channel of the Stomach (manifesting in apical pulse)

Xuan Fa image Diffusing (of Lung-Qi)

Xuan Fu image Pores (including sebaceous glands)

Yin Jing image Penis

Yun Hua image Transformation and transportation (of the Spleen)

Zhuang Huo image Exhuberant Fire

Zi Bao image Uterus

Zong Jin image Ancestral Muscle

Symptoms and signs

An chan image Hidden labour (miscarriage within 1 month of gestation)

Ban image Macule (in tongue diagnosis, Red spots)

Ban chan image Half labour

Ban Shen Bu Sui image Hemiplegia

Bi Yuan image ‘Nose pool’ (sinusitis)

Cao Za image Gnawing hunger

Chui Ru image Blow Breast

Chuan image Breathlessness

Cui jiao image Brittle foot (of pregnancy)

Dao Han image Night sweating

Du Ru image Begrudging milk

Duan Qi image Shortness of breath

Duo Qi image Robbing of Qi (very feeble voice with interrupted speech)

Duo Tai image Falling fetus

E Ni image Hiccup

E Xin image Nausea

Fa Re image Emission of heat, fever

Fan Wei image Regurgitation of food

Fan Zao image Mental restlessness and agitation (restlessness of limbs)

Feng Tuan image Wheal

Feng Yin Zhen image Wind hidden rash (urticaria)

Feng Zhen image Wind rash (German measles)

Gan Ou image Short retching with low sound

Han Re Wang Lai image Alternation of chills and fever

Han Zhan image Shivers

Hu Re image Tidal fever

Hua Tai image Slippery fetus

Ji image Blood masses

Jia image Qi masses

Jiao Qi image Leg Qi

Jie image Accumulation (or nodules)

Jing Ji image Fear and palpitations

Ju image Qi masses

Jue image Breakdown

Jue Han image Sweating from breakdown

Ke Sou image Cough

Kou Chuang image Mouth ulcers

Kou Yan Wai Xie image Deviation of eye and mouth

Li Ji image Anxiety, internal urgency (in the context of rebellious Qi of the Penetrating Vessel)

Li Ji Hou Zhong image Difficulty in defaecation

Liu Lei image Streaming eyes

Lou Ru image Trickling Breast

Ma Mu image Numbness and/or tingling

Ma Zhen image Hemp rash (measles)

Man image Feeling of fullness

Men image Feeling of oppression

Mu Chan image Quivering eyeball

Mu Hua image Blurred vision and floaters

Mu Hun image Clouded vision

Mu Yun image Blurred vision

Nao Ming image Brain noise

Ni Jing image Reverse period

Nong Pao image Pustule

Nong Tai image Playing fetus

Ou image Vomiting (with sound)

Ou Tu image Vomiting

Pao image Vesicle

Pi image Feeling of stuffiness

Qi Shao image Weak breathing

Qi Zhong image Qi oedema

Qing image Bluish-greenish (colour)

Qiu Zhen image Papule

Re Du image Toxic-Heat

Ru E image Milky mouth (swollen tonsils)

Ru Yong image Breast Carbuncle

Shang Qi image Rebellious-Qi breathing

Shen Zhong image Feeling of heaviness of the body

Shi image Full, Fullness, excess

Shi E image Stone moth (swollen tonsils)

Shi Tai image Testing fetus

Shi Zhen image Eczema

Shou Chan image Tremor of the hands

Shou Zhi Luan image Contraction of the fingers

Shui Dou image Water pox (chicken pox)

Shui Pao image Vesicle

Shui Zhong image Oedema

Si Ni image Four Rebellious

Tai Lou image Vaginal bleeding during pregnancy

Tai Dong Bu An image Restless fetus

Tai Qi Shang Ni image Fetus = Qi rebelling upwards

Tan He image Phlegm nodules

Tan Yin image Phlegm fluids (or Phlegm fluids in Stomach and Intestines)

Tou Fa Bian Bai image Greying of the hair

Tou Fa Tuo Luo image Alopecia

Tou Qing image Drooping head

Tou Yun image Dizziness

Tou Zhong image Feeling of heaviness of the head

Tu image Vomiting (without sound)

Tuo image Collapse

Wei Han image Fear of Cold (in exterior invasions of Wind)

Wu Chi image Five Retardations

Wu Feng image Aversion to Wind

Wu Han image Aversion to Cold

Wu Han Fa Re image (Simultaneous) Aversion to Cold and fever

Wu Ruan image Five Flaccidities

Wu Xin Fa Re image Five-palm heat

Xiao image Wheezing

Xiao Chan image Small labour

Xie Tong image Hypochondrial pain

Xie Xie image Diarrhoea

Xin Fan image Mental restlessness

Xin Ji image Palpitations

Xin Zhong Ao Nong image Heart feeling vexed

Xu image Empty, Emptiness, deficiency

Xuan Yin image Phlegm fluids in the hypochondrium

Xuan Yun image Dizziness

Yan Chi image Discharge from the eyes

Yan Shi image Aversion to food

Yi Jing image Seminal emissions

Yi Niao image Incontinence of urine

Yi Yin image Phlegm fluids in the limbs

You Jing image Swimming menses

Yu Zheng image Depression

Yue image Long retching with loud sound

Zhan Han image Shiver sweating

Zhang image Feeling of distension

Zhen image Rash

Zheng image Blood masses

Zheng Chong image Panic throbbing

Zhi Yin image Phlegm fluids above the diaphragm

Zhong image Feeling of heaviness

Zhou Jiaoimage Wrinkled foot (in pregnancy)

Zi Fan image Anxiety in pregnancy

Zi Linimage Urinary Syndrome in pregnancy

Zi Man image Fullness of pregnancy

Zi Qi image Qi of pregnancy

Zi Xian image Convulsions in pregnancy

Zi Xuan image Feeling of suffocation (in pregnancy)

Zi Yin image Aphonia in pregnancy

Zi Yun image Dizziness in pregnancy

Zi Zhong image Oedema of pregnancy

Zu Chan image Tremor of the feet

Disease-symptoms

Bai He Bing image Lilium Syndrome

Bai Yin image Spermatorrhoea

Bai Zhuo image White Turbidity

Ben Tun image Running Piglet Syndrome

Beng Lou image Flooding and Trickling

Bi Jing image No Periods

Bi Qiu image Stuffy nose

Bi Yuan image ‘Nose pool’ (sinusitis)

Bi Zheng image Painful Obstruction Syndrome

Cao Za image Gnawing hunger

Chan Zheng image Tremors

Chi Dai image Cretinism

Chi Zhuo image Red Turbidity

Chui Ru image Blow Breast

Dian Kuang image Dullness and mania

Dian Xian image Epilepsy

Du Ru image Begrudging milk

E Ni image Hiccup

Fan Wei image Regurgitation of food

Fei Xu Lao image Lung exhaustion

Feng Zhen image German measles

Gan image Childhood nutritional impairment

Gao Lin image Sticky Urinary Syndrome

Ji Dai image Accumulation Disorder (in children)

Ji Ju image Abdominal masses

Jing Bing image Convulsions

Jing Ji image Fear and palpitations

Jing Jian Qi Chu Xue image Bleeding between Periods

Jing Ti image Fright Cry

Jing Zhuo image Essence Turbidity

Jue Xin Tong image Breakdown Heart pain

Jue Zheng image Breakdown Syndrome

Ke Sou image Cough

Lao Lin image Fatigue Urinary Syndrome

Li Ji image Dysentery

Li Jie (Feng) image Multiple joints (Wind)

Lin Zheng image Urinary Syndrome

Long Bi image Urinary retention

Luo Li image Scrofula

Ma Zhen image Measles

Mei He Qi image Plum-Stone Syndrome

Mian Tan image Facial paralysis

Nao Lou image Brain discharge

Nue Ji image Malaria

Pi Kuai image Pi masses

Qi Lin image Qi Urinary Syndrome

Qi Zhong image Qi oedema

Qiu Ti image Stuffy nose and sneezing

Ru He image Breast nodule

Re Lin image Heat Urinary Syndrome

Ru Lao image Breast exhaustion

Ru Li image Breast scrofula

Ru Pi image Breast lump

Ru Shi Yong image Breast Stone Carbuncle

Ru Yan image Breast lump

Ru Yong image Breast Carbuncle

Shan image Hernial and genito-urinary disorders

Shi Lin image Stone Urinary Syndrome

Shi Zhen image Eczema (dermatitis)

Shui Dou image Chicken pox

Shui Zhong image Oedema

Tan He image Nodules

Tan Huan image Paralysis

Tu Suan image Sour vomiting

Tun Suan image Sour regurgitation

Wan Bi image Stubborn Painful Obstruction Syndrome

Wei Zheng image Atrophy Syndrome

Wen Bing image Warm disease

Wen Yi image Warm epidemic pathogenic factor

Wu Chi image Five Retardations

Wu Ruan image Five Flaccidities

Xie Tong image Hypochondrial pain

Xie Xie image Diarrhoea

Xin Ji image Palpitations

Xin Ji Zheng Chong image Palpitations and anxiety

Xin Tong image Heart pain

Xu Lao image Exhaustion

Xu Sun image Exhaustion

Xue Lin image Blood Urinary Syndrome

Yang Wei image Impotence (erectile dysfunction)

Ye Ge image Dysphagia and blockage

Yi image Hysteria

Yi Jing image Seminal emissions

Yi Niao image Incontinence of urine

Yin Chuang image Vulvar sores

Yin Luo image Silent Scrofula

Ying image Goitre

Yu Zheng image Depression

Yue Jing Guo Duo image Heavy Periods

Yue Jing Guo Shao image Scanty Periods

Yue Jing Hou Qi image Late Periods

Yue Jing Xian Hou Wu Ding Qi image Irregular Periods

Yue Jing Xian Qi image Early Periods

Zang Zao image Agitation

Zhen Xin Tong image True Heart pain

Zheng Chong image Panic throbbing

Zheng Jia image Abdominal masses (in women)

Zhong Feng image Wind-stroke

Zhuo image Turbidity

Zi Lin image Urinary Syndrome of Pregnancy

Zi Yun image Dizziness of Pregnancy

Zi Zhong image Oedema of Pregnancy

Vital substances

Gui image Ghost, spirit, soul of dead person

Hou Tian Zhi Qi image Post-Natal Qi

Hun image Ethereal Soul

Jing image Essence

Jing Qi image Channel Qi

Jun Huo image Emperor Fire

Ming Men image Gate of Life

Ming Men Huo image Fire of the Gate of Life

Po image Corporeal Soul

Shao Huo image Physiological Fire of the body

Shen image Mind (the Shen of the Heart) or Spirit (the complex of Heart-Shen, Corporeal Soul, Ethereal Soul, Intellect and Will-Power)

Sui image Marrow

Tian Gui image Heavenly Gui

Tuo image Spittle

Wei Qi image Defensive Qi

Xian image Saliva

Xian Tian Zhi Qi image Pre-Natal Qi

Xiang Huo image Minister Fire

Yi image Intellect

Ying Qi image Nutritive Qi

Yuan Qi image Original Qi

Zhen Qi image True Qi

Zheng Qi image Upright Qi

Zhi image Will-Power

Zhong Qi image Central Qi

Zhuang Huo image Exuberant Fire (pathological)

Zong Qi image Gathering Qi (of the chest)

Emotions

Ai image(or Hao image) Love

Bei image Sadness

Jing image Shock

Kong image Fear, fright

Lü image Reflection

Nu image Anger

Si image Pensiveness

Xi image Joy

You image Worry

Yu image Craving

Channels and points

Ah Shi xue image Ah Shi point

Bao Luo image Uterus Channel

Bao Mai image Uterus Vessel

Ben Biao image Root and Branch (of channels)

Chong Mai image Penetrating Vessel

Cou Li image Space between skin and muscles (also cavities and texture)

Dai Mai image Girdle Vessel

Du Mai image Governing Vessel

Fu Luo image Superficial Connecting channel

Gen Jie image Origin and Concentration (of channels)

He Xue image Sea point

Hui Xue image Gathering point

Jing Bie image Divergent channel

Jing Jin image Muscle channel

Jing Mai image Main channel

Jing Xue image Well point

Jing Xue image River point

Ju Ci image Opposite needling

Jue Yin image Terminal Yin

Luo Mai image Connecting channel

Luo Xue image Connecting point

Miu Ci image Contralateral needling

Mu Xue image Front-Collecting points

Qi Jie image Pathways of Qi

Ren Mai image Directing Vessel

Shao Yang image Lesser Yang

Shao Yin image Lesser Yin

Shu Xue image Stream point

(Bei) Shu Xue image Back-Transporting points

Sun Luo image Minute Connecting channel

Tai Yang image Greater Yang

Tai Yin image Greater Yin

Wu Shu Xue image Five Transporting points

Xi Xue image Accumulation point

Yang Ming image Bright Yang

Yang Qiao Mai image Yang Stepping Vessel

Yang Wei Mai image Yang Linking Vessel

Yin Qiao Mai image Yin Stepping Vessel

Yin Wei Mai image Yin Linking Vessel

Ying Xue image Spring point

Yuan Xue image Source point

Zong Mai image Ancestral Vessel

Pulse positions

Chi image Rear

Cun image Front

Guan image Middle

Pulse qualities

Chang image Long

Chen image Deep

Chi image Slow

Cu image Hasty

Da image Big

Dai image Irregular or Intermittent

Dong image Moving

Duan image Short

Fu image Floating

Fu image Hidden

Ge image Leather

Hong image Overflowing

Hua image Slippery

Huan image Slowed-Down

Ji image Hurried

Jie image Knotted

Jin image Tight

Kou image Hollow

Lao image Firm

Ru image Soggy

Ruan image Soggy

Ruo image Weak

San image Scattered

Se image Choppy

Shi image Full

Shu image Rapid

Wei image Minute

Xi image Fine

Xian image Wiry

Xu image Empty

Tongue diagnosis

Ban image Spots

Bian Wai image Deviated

Chi Gen image Teethmarks

Dan Bai image Pale

Dian image Red points (on the tongue)

Fu image Mouldy

Hong image Red

Hua image Slippery (tongue coating)

Lie Wen image Cracked

Ni image Sticky (tongue coating)

Nong image Moving

Qiang Geng image Stiff

She Tai image Tongue coating

She Ti image Tongue body shape

She Zhi image Tongue body

Zhan image Quivering

Zhong image Swollen

Zi image Purple

Methods of treatment

An Tai image Calm the fetus

Bu image Tonify (or reinforce as a needle technique)

De Qi image Obtaining needling sensation

Gong Xia image Moving downwards

Gong Yu image Dispel stasis (of Blood)

Gu image Consolidate

Gu Biao image Consolidate the Exterior

Gu Tuo image Consolidate collapse

Hua Shi image Resolve Dampness

Hua Tan image Resolve Phlegm

Hua Yu image Eliminate stasis (of Blood)

Huan Ji image Moderate urgency

Huo Xue image Invigorate Blood

Jie Biao image Release the Exterior

Jie Yu image Eliminate stagnation (of Qi)

Kai Qiao image Open the orifices

Li Hou image Benefit the throat

Li Mu image Brighten the eyes

Li Qi image Move Qi

Li Shi image Resolve Dampness

Li Shui image Promote Water transformation

Li Shui Dao image Regulate the Water passages

Liu Wei image Circulate Defensive Qi

Ping Gan image Calm the Liver

Po Xue image Break-up Blood

Qing Re image Clear Heat

Qu Feng image Expel (external) Wind

Qu Yu image Eliminate stasis (of Blood)

San Han image Expel (or scatter) Cold

San Jie image Dissipate accumulation or dissipate nodules

Sheng Xin image Promote healing of tissues

Shu (Gan) image Pacify (the Liver)

Shu Jin image Relax the sinews

Shun Qi image Rectify Qi

Tiao He Ying Wei image Harmonize Nutritive and Defensive Qi

Tiao Jing image Regulate the period

Tong Fu image Penetrating the Yang Organs

Tong Li image Open the Water passages by promoting diuresis

Tong Luo image Remove obstructions from the Connecting channels

Tong Qiao image Open the orifices

Tong Ru Luo image Remove obstructions from the breast Connecting channels

Tong Shun image Remove obstructions by restoring the correct direction of Qi flow

Tong Xia image Remove obstructions by moving downwards

Tong Yang image Open (the chest)

Wen Jing image Warm the menses

Xi Feng image Extinguish Wind (internal)

Xie image Reduce (as a needle technique)

Xie image Clear (Heat)

Xie image Drain (Fire)

Xie image Drain (method of treatment as opposed to Bu image, tonify)

Xie Xia image Move downwards

Xin Kai Ku Jiang image Use pungent herbs to open and bitter ones to make Qi descend

Xing Zhi image Promote resuscitation

Xuan Fei image Restore the diffusing of Lung-Qi

Xuan Tong Bi image Open the nose

Yang (Xue) image Nourish (Blood)

Pathogenic factors

Feng Han image Wind-Cold

Feng Re image Wind-Heat

Han image Cold

Huo image Fire

Re image Heat

Re Du image Toxic-Heat

Shi image Dampness

Shu image Summer-Heat

Tan image Phlegm

Tan Yin image Phlegm fluids in GENERAL and also Phlegm fluids in the Stomach

Wen Yi image Warm epidemic pathogenic factor

Xie image Pathogenic factor

Xie Qi image Pathogenic factor

Xuan Yin image Phlegm fluids in the hypochondrium

Yi Yin image Phlegm fluids in the limbs

Zao image Dryness

Zhi Yin image Phlegm fluids in the diaphragm