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 Fujian, Ming China to Kumemura, Okinawa, Ryūkyū Kingdom, via the Yukatchu Samurē class.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [toːdʲiː]

Noun

唐(とー)手(でぃー) (tōdī)

karate

Descendants

Descendants

→ Japanese: 空手 (karate), 唐手
- → Afrikaans: karate
- → Arabic: كَارَاتِيه m (karātē), كَارَاطِي (kārāṭī)
- ⇒ Literary Chinese: 空手道
  - → Cantonese: 空手道 (hung¹ sau² dou⁶)
  - → Hokkien: 空手道 (khong-chhiú-tō)
  - → Korean: 공수도 (gongsudo)
  - → Mandarin: 空手道 (kōngshǒudào)
  - → 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