What means ugoki うごき
 

Hello!

I'm a Shiatsu Practitioner and i also use some TCM techniques so i like to create a Word i can use for my presentation.

So what i am doing is giving a impulse or i move the "ki" 気 or 氣
Does it make sense if i call this

うごき気
or
うごき氣

or maybe in other way like

氣うごき

Maybe someone can help me.
thank you and sorry for my bad english

Greetings from Vienna
BEn

A very difficult question for those of us with no professional knowledge of 気功 and TCM, isn't it?

I am going to say what I can say as a Japanese speaker about the three terms that you have created. None of those would sound or look like a good technical term to Japanese ears or eyes. They simply do not make sense to Japanese speakers.

Those are linguistically almost impossible and very strained-sounding words for us. 動き（うごき） is a simple and plain originally Japanese word with Japanese sounds. 気 is a Chinese loan word with the Chinese-like sounds. Normally, we do not combine two words of different origins, especially when one (気) is much "higher" and "bigger" as a word than the other.

I have just come up with this new word 転気（てんき）. It has none of the unnaturalness of the three that you came up with. It is Chinese-on-Chinese but when Japanese speakers see it, they could easily visually "see" the meaning of it because of the kanji used. They could easily imagine that it is about "moving a 気 from point A to point B".

But then again, I know nothing about 気功, so please take what I have said with a grain of salt. What I have said in terms of linguistics, however, you can count on. Those three DO NOT work.

That was a great help.
Thank you.