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The origin of the Ryukyuan word nunchaku (ヌンチャク) likely originated from the Min Chinese word of "nng chat kun"(兩節棍). Another name for this weapon is "nūchiku" (ヌウチク).
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Chi You. Legendary weapons, arms, and armor are important motifs in Chinese mythology as well as Chinese legend, cultural symbology, and fiction. Weapons featured in Chinese mythology, legend, cultural symbology, and fiction include Guanyu's pole weapon (featured in the 14th century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms).
This article contains a concise listing of individual systems of Chinese martial arts. Listings of various branches of a martial art system are located on a corresponding Wikipedia page which details the history of the system. The following list of Chinese martial arts is by no means exhaustive.
The list also offers a table of correspondences between 2,546 Simplified Chinese characters and 2,574 Traditional Chinese characters, along with other selected variant forms. This table replaced all previous related standards, and provides the authoritative list of characters and glyph shapes for Simplified Chinese in China.
shōtō (小刀, lit. small sword) – any type of Japanese short sword, the smaller in a pair of daishō. Commonly a wakizashi . sori ( 反り , curvature) – curvature of the sword measured as the greatest perpendicular distance between the back edge ( mune ) and the chord connecting the back edge notch ( munemachi ) with the point of the blade.
It provides encyclopedic information about poetry, book titles, historical figures, place names, Buddhist terms, and even modern expressions. The Dai Kan-Wa Jiten is intended for reading Chinese and does not cover Japanese words created since the Meiji era. This is the format for main character entries:
These are terms used in the Chinese martial art, Wing Chun.They are originally colloquial Cantonese (or Foshan spoken slang).Thus, their meanings might be difficult to trace.