chuǎn míng
Also rendered: Panting and wheezing (this site; it keeps both halves, because the chapter's word has a movement and a sound in it) · Chuan ming (transliteration; how the word appears wherever this sentence is discussed)
Reviewed · 2026-10-11
At a glance
What comes of the four rebels: 陰爭於内，陽擾於外，魄汗未藏，四逆而起，起則熏肺，使人喘鳴. Yin is fighting inside, yang is disturbing outside, the sweat of the corporeal soul will not stay in, and the four counterflowing qi rise. When they rise they scorch the lung, and that is what makes a person pant and wheeze. 喘 is the racing breath and 鳴 the sound it makes — the chapter’s word is the two of them, and the mechanism it gives is a fire: the lung is scorched from below by qi that has turned round and gone up.
Passages where the term does real work, with the original, pinyin and English on the same line.
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| This site | panting and wheezing | 喘 is the racing breath and 鳴 the sound, and dropping either leaves a word the chapter did not use |
| Transliteration | chuan ming | how the word is written in discussions of this sentence; right about the referent, and it loses the sound |
| Descriptive | noisy laboured breathing | exact about what is heard, and it is a description: the chapter names the breath and the noise and then tells you what made them |
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