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The name "tai chi", the most common English spelling, is not a standard romanization of the Chinese name for the art . The Chinese name was first commonly written in English using the Wade-Giles system as "". But English speakers abbreviated it to "" and dropped the mark of aspiration. Since the late twentieth century, pinyin has been officially adopted in China and replaced Wade-Giles as the most popular system for romanizing

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