Talk:Philosophers East vs West/@comment-5412428-20150702040124/@comment-26136579-20150702042342

It's not a "misspelling" when they didn't even have the Latin Alphabet in ancient China.

When people like Marco Polo went to the East, they tried to fit the phonetics of the word into the Latin Alphabet that Europe uses. It seems that each person chose a different way to express the sound in English letters.

One of them heard "Chi" the other heard "Qi". It's not really anything to fight about.