唐手

Japanese

Kanji in this term
唐	手
から Grade: S	て Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
空手

For pronunciation and definitions of 唐手 – see the following entry.

【空手からて】 [noun] karate

(This term, 唐手, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Okinawan

Etymology

Kanji in this term
唐	手
とー Grade: S	てぃー > でぃー Grade: 1
on'yomi	kun'yomi

Compound of 唐 (Tō, “Tang Dynasty; China”) +‎ 手 (tī, “hand”), as the art was originally transmitted from China to Okinawa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [toːdʲiː]

Noun

唐(とー)手(でぃー) (tōdī) 

1. karate

Descendants

Descendants

• → Japanese: 空手
  • → Afrikaans: karate
  • → Arabic: كَارَاتِيه m (karātē), كَارَاطِي (kārāṭī)
  • → Chinese: 空手道
    • → Mandarin: 空手道 (kōngshǒudào)
    • → Cantonese: 空手道 (hung¹ sau² dou⁶)
    • → Hokkien: 空手道 (khong-chhiú-tō)
    • → Korean: 공수도 (gongsudo)
    • → Vietnamese: không thủ đạo
  • → Czech: karate n
  • → Danish: karate c
  • → Dutch: karate n or m
  • → English: karate
  • → Finnish: karate
  • → French: karaté m
  • → German: Karate n
  • → Icelandic: karate n
  • → Indonesian: karate
  • → Italian: karatè m
  • → Latvian: karatē m
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: karate m
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: karate m
  • → Polish: karate n
  • → Portuguese: karaté m, caraté
  • → Romanian: karate n
  • → Serbo-Croatian: karate m
  • → Spanish: karate m, kárate
  • → Swahili: karate
  • → Swedish: karate c
  • → Tagalog: karate
  • → Vietnamese: không thủ