feng shui

Etymology


Borrowed from : +. .

Noun

 * 1)  A system of spiritual energies, both good and evil, present in the natural features of landscapes.
 * 2)  An ancient Chinese system of geomancy used to design buildings and graves, and to determine the spatial arrangement of things, according to rules about the flow of energy, aimed at achieving harmony with the environment, promoting good fortune and wealth, etc.
 * 3) * {{quote-book|en|author=w:Helen Fielding|chapter=Saturday, 11 November|chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=l5jMNzr-CnYC&pg=PT171|title=Bridget Jones’s Diary|location=London|publisher=Picador|year=1996|isbn=978-0-330-37163-6|location2=London|publisher2=w:Penguin Books|year2=1999 (2010 printing)|isbn2=978-1-101-19954-1|passage=Thought this might be the perfect time to do the Feng Shui so went out and bought {{w|Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]. Carefully, using the drawing in Cosmo, I mapped the ba-gua of the flat. Had a flash of horrified realization. There was a wastepaper basket in my Helpful Friends Corner. No wonder bloody Tom had disappeared.}}
 * 4) * {{quote-book|en|author=Andrew Grzeskowiak|chapter=The Work Environment|editor=Barbara Szerlip|title=Passport Hong Kong: Your Pocket Guide to Hong Kong Business, Customs & Etiquette|series=Passport to the World|location=San Rafael, Calif.|publisher=World Trade Press|year=1996|page=34|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=njNQ_dojWaYC&pg=PA34|isbn=978-1-885073-31-0|passage=No office building, store, residence or place of worship is built in Hong Kong without first consulting a feng shui man. [...] According to tradition, every structure in China rests on some part of the Earth Dragon, over which flows Heaven-Earth-Air currents. A feng shui professional consults these currents to determine on which part of the Dragon a building rests.}}
 * 5) * {{quote-web|en|date=January 31, 1997|author=Charles Hutzler|title=Leader’s office hunt a lesson in arcana and parking problems| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419180820/https://apnews.com/article/9a76b63bd81ad69f6063a03f1133da26| work=w:AP News| url2=https://archive.is/ygjGw| text=The Chinese believe feng shui, pronounced fung shway, can help blunt the ill effects to health and wealth brought on, for example, by the inauspicious jut of an adjacent building or hill.}}
 * 6) * {{quote-book|en|author=Graham Parkes|chapter=Winds, Waters, and Earth Energies: Fengshui and Awareness of Place|editors=w:Helaine Selin; Arne Kalland|title=Nature across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures|series=Science across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science|seriesvolume=4|location=Dordrecht|publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers|year=2003|page=186|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=pPqPBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA186|doi=10.1007/978-94-017-0149-5|isbn=978-90-481-6271-0|passage=[A] large number of people in the United States and Western Europe are paying fengshui "experts" large sums of money to align their expensive coffee tables with their even more expensive sofas, in the hope of bringing more wealth, and perhaps some happiness, into their already affluent households. This seems a gross perversion of the basic spirit of fengshui – which would say that happiness, and certainly some wealth, would come more easily if these people simply sold off all the furniture and other clutter that's obstructing their contact with their natural surroundings.}}
 * 7) * {{quote-book|en|author=Richard Webster|chapter=The Bathroom|title=101 Feng Shui Tips for Your Home|location=St. Paul, Minn.|publisher=Llewellyn Publishers|year=2004|page=93|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=zQPDeRLgWOwC&pg=PA93|isbn=978-1-56718-809-7|passage=The toilet and bathroom are extremely important rooms in the house as they are places where water (money) drains away. The ch'i should be allowed to flow smoothly in and out of these rooms without impediment. Consequently, overly ornate bathrooms are not good from a feng shui point of view as they tend to hold the ch'i inside the room.}}
 * 8) * {{quote-book|en|author=Michael Y. Mak; Albert T. So|chapter=Case Studies: Sustainable Design and Feng Shui|title=Scientific Feng Shui for the Built Environment: Fundamentals and Case Studies|location=Hong Kong|publisher=City University of Hong Kong Press|year=2011|page=153|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=nQAojhhfBxoC&pg=PA153|column=1|isbn=978-962-937-178-4|passage=As can be seen, there are similarities and differences between sustainable design and Feng Shui concepts. From the analysis, the sustainable design concepts aimed at the creation of enjoyable space for human interactions and balance between the natural and the built environment, can be identified with the Feng Shui concepts of unity of heaven and humanity, and the Yin and Yang harmony.}}
 * 9) {{lb|en|colloquial}} The state of having a space in a particular order, though not necessarily in accordance with any actual principles of the Chinese system of geomancy.
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|author=w:Helen Fielding|chapter=Saturday, 11 November|chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=l5jMNzr-CnYC&pg=PT171|title=Bridget Jones’s Diary|location=London|publisher=Picador|year=1996|isbn=978-0-330-37163-6|location2=London|publisher2=w:Penguin Books|year2=1999 (2010 printing)|isbn2=978-1-101-19954-1|passage=Thought this might be the perfect time to do the Feng Shui so went out and bought {{w|Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]. Carefully, using the drawing in Cosmo, I mapped the ba-gua of the flat. Had a flash of horrified realization. There was a wastepaper basket in my Helpful Friends Corner. No wonder bloody Tom had disappeared.}}
 * 2) * {{quote-book|en|author=Andrew Grzeskowiak|chapter=The Work Environment|editor=Barbara Szerlip|title=Passport Hong Kong: Your Pocket Guide to Hong Kong Business, Customs & Etiquette|series=Passport to the World|location=San Rafael, Calif.|publisher=World Trade Press|year=1996|page=34|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=njNQ_dojWaYC&pg=PA34|isbn=978-1-885073-31-0|passage=No office building, store, residence or place of worship is built in Hong Kong without first consulting a feng shui man. [...] According to tradition, every structure in China rests on some part of the Earth Dragon, over which flows Heaven-Earth-Air currents. A feng shui professional consults these currents to determine on which part of the Dragon a building rests.}}
 * 3) * {{quote-web|en|date=January 31, 1997|author=Charles Hutzler|title=Leader’s office hunt a lesson in arcana and parking problems| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419180820/https://apnews.com/article/9a76b63bd81ad69f6063a03f1133da26| work=w:AP News| url2=https://archive.is/ygjGw| text=The Chinese believe feng shui, pronounced fung shway, can help blunt the ill effects to health and wealth brought on, for example, by the inauspicious jut of an adjacent building or hill.}}
 * 4) * {{quote-book|en|author=Graham Parkes|chapter=Winds, Waters, and Earth Energies: Fengshui and Awareness of Place|editors=w:Helaine Selin; Arne Kalland|title=Nature across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures|series=Science across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science|seriesvolume=4|location=Dordrecht|publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers|year=2003|page=186|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=pPqPBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA186|doi=10.1007/978-94-017-0149-5|isbn=978-90-481-6271-0|passage=[A] large number of people in the United States and Western Europe are paying fengshui "experts" large sums of money to align their expensive coffee tables with their even more expensive sofas, in the hope of bringing more wealth, and perhaps some happiness, into their already affluent households. This seems a gross perversion of the basic spirit of fengshui – which would say that happiness, and certainly some wealth, would come more easily if these people simply sold off all the furniture and other clutter that's obstructing their contact with their natural surroundings.}}
 * 5) * {{quote-book|en|author=Richard Webster|chapter=The Bathroom|title=101 Feng Shui Tips for Your Home|location=St. Paul, Minn.|publisher=Llewellyn Publishers|year=2004|page=93|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=zQPDeRLgWOwC&pg=PA93|isbn=978-1-56718-809-7|passage=The toilet and bathroom are extremely important rooms in the house as they are places where water (money) drains away. The ch'i should be allowed to flow smoothly in and out of these rooms without impediment. Consequently, overly ornate bathrooms are not good from a feng shui point of view as they tend to hold the ch'i inside the room.}}
 * 6) * {{quote-book|en|author=Michael Y. Mak; Albert T. So|chapter=Case Studies: Sustainable Design and Feng Shui|title=Scientific Feng Shui for the Built Environment: Fundamentals and Case Studies|location=Hong Kong|publisher=City University of Hong Kong Press|year=2011|page=153|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=nQAojhhfBxoC&pg=PA153|column=1|isbn=978-962-937-178-4|passage=As can be seen, there are similarities and differences between sustainable design and Feng Shui concepts. From the analysis, the sustainable design concepts aimed at the creation of enjoyable space for human interactions and balance between the natural and the built environment, can be identified with the Feng Shui concepts of unity of heaven and humanity, and the Yin and Yang harmony.}}
 * 7) {{lb|en|colloquial}} The state of having a space in a particular order, though not necessarily in accordance with any actual principles of the Chinese system of geomancy.
 * 1) {{lb|en|colloquial}} The state of having a space in a particular order, though not necessarily in accordance with any actual principles of the Chinese system of geomancy.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Macedonian: фенг шу́и


 * Arabic: فِنْغ شُوي
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 風水
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Hebrew: פנג שווי
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:, hongsui
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: фың-шұй
 * Korean: 풍수(風水)
 * Macedonian: фенг шу́и
 * Russian: ,
 * Tagalog: punsoy
 * Thai:
 * Vietnamese: (風水)

Verb

 * 1)  To arrange a space according to the rules of feng shui.

Noun

 * 1) feng shui
 * Al voor de eerste helft van de 15de eeuw was de gehele nieuwe stad klaar, geheel volgens de regels van Feng Shui. &mdash; Already by the first half of the 15th century, the whole new city was completed, entirely according to the rules of feng shui.