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description: Three versions of the Chinese character qi4, lifebreath

author: graphics by Patrick Edwin Moran after Gao Shu-fan. Caption repeats the Chinese in romanized Chinese and = Oracle bone form, small seal form, and modern standard form.

source: Data from which graphics made is in Gao's book, Xing, yin, yi Zong-he da zi dian, Cheng-chung shu-chu, Taipei, Taiwan, 1972

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