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Support The term Tai Chi is a western misspelling of the Wade-Giles transliteration. It’s only used to refer to 太極拳 hand-fighting based exercise. Taiji is not, or only rarely, used in English contexts to refer to that subject. The main article for Taiji is this one as the
most common use of the word Taiji. Cambial —
foliar❧13:02, 30 October 2023 (UTC)reply
Oppose - I think the 2012 RM had it about right. Taiji is simply an alternative spelling of Tai Chi, and that is the primary topic over others. —
Amakuru (
talk)
21:04, 5 November 2023 (UTC)reply
I'm not so sure—orthography makes a difference. Kanji is just a different spelling of hanzi, by the same parameters, but the different connotations have given them different meanings as English words.
Remsense聊21:53, 5 November 2023 (UTC)reply
Oppose making
Taiji (philosophy) primary topic, but support disambiguation. Google results for "taiji" show a good mix of many different senses. Of
massviews,
Tai chi makes up less than 50%. Some raw numbers here: 376,913 for
Tai chi, 143,657 for
Seo Taiji, 142,515 for
Hong Taiji, 79,949 for
Taiji (philosophy), 6,779 for
Taiji (redirect to Tai chi).
Tai chi,
Seo Taiji, and
Hong Taiji should all be discounted, but by how much is more of an art than a science. We know that the lower bound for
Tai chi is 6,779; realistically the adjusted pageviews (for how many people actually call it "Taiji" in English) is probably in the ballpark of 50-100K. The partial name matches get discounted somewhat, but they're still significant and contribute to the determination of no primary topic. --
King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠05:07, 7 November 2023 (UTC)reply
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