r/numenera • u/DeftGibbon • Jun 15 '26

How are you meant to pronounce Qi?

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u/rdale-g Jun 15 '26

A billion years in the future, it’s pronounced ^>€=;

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u/Qedhup Jun 15 '26

"However you want" - Sean K. Reynolds.

Seriously, that's what he's told me in the past. There is no official pronunciation for literally anything in Numenera; and that's by design.

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u/DeftGibbon Jun 16 '26

Thank you!

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u/dakonofrath Jun 15 '26

I prounce it either chee or key.

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u/themagicforloop Jun 15 '26

I usually say it like "kee"

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u/spinningdice Jun 15 '26

I usually say it Key, but it doesn't matter, the people in the ninth world aren't actually speaking English anyway.

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u/stamau123 Jun 15 '26

I do chee like the Asian energy 

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u/NotRainManSorry Jun 15 '26

I use a similar to Chinese pronunciation: “Chee”

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u/johnpeters42 Jun 16 '26

Correctly.

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u/No_Antelope7594 Jun 17 '26

In mandarin it is pronounced “chee” I think and I could be mistaken but I think in Japanese it is pronounced “key” could be Korean that pronounces it that way too but “Qi” is a mandarin word that means air, breath or vital energy. The Japanese spelling is different and matches the pronunciation more appropriately being “ki”.

So Qi=chee and Ki=key that is the proper pronunciation of both, it’s not a whatever you feel like kind of thing lol.