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单词 feng shui
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feng shui

[ fuhng-shwey, feng-shwee ]
/ ˈfʌŋ ˈʃweɪ, ˈfɛŋ ˈʃwi /
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the Chinese art or practice of creating harmonious surroundings that enhance the balance of yin and yang, as in arranging furniture or determining the siting of a house.

Origin of feng shui

1795–1800; from Chinese: natural surroundings, literally, “wind and water”

Words nearby feng shui

fenestrated membrane, fenestration, fenfluramine, F Eng, Fengjie, feng shui, Fengtien, Feng Yu-hsiang, Fenian, Fenian cycle, fenland
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Example sentences from the Web for feng shui

  • Much of the national art of Feng-shui is concerned, under the mask of divination, with these common-sense aims.

    A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II)|Charles Creighton

British Dictionary definitions for feng shui

feng shui
/ (ˈfʌŋ ˈʃweɪ) /

noun

the Chinese art of determining the most propitious design and placement of a grave, building, room, etc, so that the maximum harmony is achieved between the flow of chi of the environment and that of the user, believed to bring good fortune

Word Origin for feng shui

C20: from Chinese feng wind + shui water
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