經風简体经风

jīng fēng

Wind of the channels · jing feng

Also rendered: Wind of the channels (this site; 經 is kept as the channels rather than as the vessels, so that the road and not the contents is what the word carries) · Jing feng (transliteration; used when the sequence 八風 → 經風 → 五藏 is quoted whole)

Cosmology

Reviewed · 2026-10-10

At a glance

Pinyin: jīng fēng
Simplified: 经风
Literal: 經 jīng — the channels, the warp of a fabric before it is the warp of the body (《說文》: 經，織也：what runs lengthwise on the loom); 風 fēng — wind. The wind of the channels: what the eight winds of heaven become once they have given off their evil and entered. Suwen 4 says it in one clause — 八風發邪，以爲經風，觸五藏，邪氣發病 — and that clause is the chapter's whole argument in miniature: the wind comes from outside, becomes the wind of the channels, and by that road reaches the five viscera, where it makes disease.
Shuowen: **「經」讀 jīng，本篇2見**；**「風」讀 fēng，本篇11見**；**「經風」本篇1見**；**《說文》：經，織也；風，八風也**；**本篇「經風」與「五風」對舉：經風自外而入，五風自內而應**

In brief

Wind that has entered and is now carried by the channels. The opening clause of Suwen 4 gives the sequence entire: the eight winds give off evil; becoming the wind of the channels, it touches the five viscera; and the evil qi brings forth disease. 經風 is the middle link of that sequence and the one the chapter invents for itself — it is not a wind of the sky any more, and it is not yet a disease of a viscus. What it names is the road, which is why the same chapter goes on to give every quarter its channel opening: the nape in spring, the chest and flanks in midsummer, the shoulder and back in autumn, the waist and thigh in winter.

Senses in the classical corpus

The graphs 經風

經中之風也，八風之邪入經而後有此名

八風發邪，以爲經風 — Suwen 4

Where it comes from 八風發邪

八方之風發而為邪，邪入則為經風

八風發邪 — Suwen 4

What it becomes 以爲經風

自天之風變為經中之風，此一轉也

以爲經風 — Suwen 4

Where it goes 觸五藏

經風循經而內，觸於五藏

觸五藏 — Suwen 4

What it does there 邪氣發病

邪既觸藏，病由是發

邪氣發病 — Suwen 4

The road it uses 俞

五藏之俞在頸項、胸脅、肩背、腰股、脊，風由是入

俞在頸項 — Suwen 4

Occurrences in the classics

Passages where the term does real work, with the original, pinyin and English on the same line.

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素問·金匱真言論 Suwen 4 · 金匱真言論 Read in context →

黃帝問曰：天有八風，經有五風，何謂？歧伯對曰：八風發邪，以爲經風，觸五藏，邪氣發病。黄帝问曰：天有八风，经有五风，何谓？歧伯对曰：八风发邪，以为经风，触五藏，邪气发病。

huáng dì wèn yuē: tiān yǒu bā fēng, jīng yǒu wǔ fēng, hé wèi? qí bó duì yuē: bā fēng fā xié, yǐ wéi jīng fēng, chù wǔ zàng, xié qì fā bìng.

The Yellow Emperor asks: heaven has eight winds, the channels have five winds — what does this mean? Qi Bo replies: the eight winds give off evil; becoming the wind of the channels, it touches the five viscera, and the evil qi brings forth disease.

**「經風」本篇1見**；**「俞」讀 shù，本篇5見，見本站第五五七條**；**「八風」本篇2見，見本站第四八〇條**；**「五風」本篇1見，見本站新目**

Compounds built on this term

八風發邪

bā fēng fā xié

the eight winds give off evil

本篇1見

以爲經風

yǐ wéi jīng fēng

becoming the wind of the channels

本篇1見

觸五藏

chù wǔ zàng

it touches the five viscera

本篇1見

俞在頸項

shù zài jǐng xiàng

its transport is at the nape

本篇1見

How it has been translated

Every rendering below is a decision about which reader is being addressed. There is no neutral option.

This site	Wind of the channels · jing feng	the chapter's own sequence is an itinerary, and 經 is the road it travels
Literal	channel wind	compact; right about the referent, though it reads as a compound noun in English
Explanatory	wind that has entered the channels	the sense in full, at the cost of the two graphs

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