Talk:Chi blocking/@comment-5131400-20120531152200/@comment-4910024-20120531154740

It's spelled "qi" in the Hanyu-pinyin transcription and "chi" in the older Wade-Giles system of transliteration. Pinyin as been the standard-use transliteration in China since the 1950s, although it has been criticized for assigning strange phonetic values to characters of the Roman alphabet (an excellent example is "q" being pronounced "ch"). Either transcription is equally valid, but as this is an English-language wiki, the Wade-Giles system with its more Anglicized transcriptions is likely the better choice.