Is there a Chinese word for the Japanese 気合 (kiai), the sounds ("Hi-yah!" etc.) made when performing martial arts? I watched 叶问4 (Ip Man 4) last night, and became interested in the sounds they make during fighting:


  Kiai (Japanese: 気合, /ˈkiːaɪ/) is a Japanese term used in martial arts for the short shout uttered when performing an attacking move. ...
  The concept has become a notable part of Asian martial arts in popular culture, especially in martial arts films, in writing often rendered in variants such as Hi-yah!, Aiyah!, Eeee-yah!, or Hyah!.
  Kiai, Wikipedia


See also Why do martial artists “shout” in the execution of a technique? on MartialArts.SE.  I didn't immediately find the Chinese equivalent of this term.

Question: Is there a Chinese word for the Japanese 気合, the sounds ("Hi-yah!" etc.) made when performing martial arts?

I'm not even sure this is real, or just something people do in Asian movies marketed to Westerners.
Here's a Zhihu question about kiai in kendo (劍道). In the realm of Japanese martial arts, it looks like Chinese would just character-transcribe the word as「气合」.



Note that「気合」is specifically a Japanese term, and is used for a host of other meanings in Japanese (breathing, martial spirit, etc.) , so I would say that using「气合」in Chinese in a martial-arts related sense is not appropriate for anything outside of Japanese martial arts. The closest Chinese-language term for martial spirit would be something like「气勢」, and this doesn't necessarily point to any shouting.


  「气合」is also a classical Chinese term meaning agreeable sentiments/inclination.