Tuttle Dictionary Martial Arts Korea, China & Japan. Daniel Kogan
[Common Usage] thigh
daaih daam (C) [Common Usage] brave
Daaih Daat Gwa Kyuhn (C) [Choy Leih Faht] (lit. Great Eight Trigram Fist Form) a hand form
Daaih Fu Yin Kyuhn (C) [Chat Sing Tohng Lohng] (lit. Big Tiger Swallow Fist) a hand form
Daaih Huhng Keih Daahn Tauh Gwan (C) [Choy Leih Faht] (lit. Great Flag Single-Ended Staff Form) a weapons form using a staff
Daaih Huhng Keih Gwan (C) [Chat Sing Tohng Lohng] (lit. Big Red Flag Staff) a weapons form using a staff
Daaih Huhng Kyuhn (C) [Ying Jaau] a hand form
Daaih Luhn Sau Fa San Kyuhn (C) [Baahk Hok] a hand form
Daaih Sahp Jih Kyuhn (C) [Choy Leih Faht] (to. Great Cross Pattern Form) a hand form
daaih sauh (C) [Common Usage] (lit. Big Anniversary) the Chinese usually celebrate their sixtieth or eightieth birthdays with banquets
Daaih Sou Ji Gwan (C) [Chat Sing Tohng Lohng] (lit. Big Sweeping Son Staff) a weapons form using a staff
daaih teui (C) [Common Usage] see geuk
Daaih Tou Saam Jin Kyuhn (C) [Ngh Jou Kyuhn] (lit. Big Set Three Battles Fist) a hand form
daaih wong (C) [Medicine] the root of this plant has germicidal properties and is used in Chinese medicine to balance other herbal ingredients
Daaih Yuhk (C) [Master] a Buddhist monk at the Woh Sou Toi temple who taught the Dragon style to Lahm Yiu Kwaih in the early nineteenth century
daai sau yan (C) [Common Usage] large hand stamp
daam (C) [Common Usage] gallbladder; courage
daam bou (C) [Common Usage] see dan bao
daam bou yahn (C) [Common Usage] see dan bao ren
daam sam (C) [Common Usage] see yau sauh
daam seui (C) [Common Usage] to carry water, to bring water
daam siu (C) [Common Usage] to be cowardly or timid
daan (C) [Common Usage] see daahn
daan dou (C) [Weapon] (to. single broadsword) a heavy, slightly curved single-edged sword with a protective hand guard
Daan Dou Bin (C) [Huhng Ga] (lit. Single Sword Whip) a weapons form using a broadsword and a whip
daap (C) [Common Usage] to respond, answer
da baaih (C) [Common Usage] see da bai
da bai (M) [Common Usage] to defeat, to conquer
dachi (J) [Common Usage] stance
daebi makgi (K) [Taekwondo] guarding block
dae do (K) [Common Usage] halberd
daegakseon chigi (K) [Kum Do] diagonal cut
daegeom (K) [Kum Do] great sword, a sword larger than normal size
daegeup ban (K) [Kuk Sool] high-level course
daegeup hyeong (K) [Kuk Sool] advanced-level form
daegung (K) [Kung Do] great (archer's) bow, a bow larger than normal size
Dae Han Cheyuk Hoi (K) [Common Usage] Korea Amateur Sports Association, which oversees kum do, kung do, boxing, fencing, etc.
Dae Han Guk Sul Hapkido Hyeophoi (K) [Common Usage] Korea Kuk Sool-Hapkido Association
Dae Han Gung Do Hyeophoi (K) [Kung Do] Korea Archery Association
Dae Han Hapkido Hyeophoi (K) [Common Usage] Korea Hapkido Association
Dae Han Min Guk (K) [Common Usage] Republic of Korea
Dae Han Peuro Tae Su Do Hyeophoi (K) [Common Usage] Korea Pro Tae Soo Do Association
Dae Han Ssi Rum Hyeophoi (K) [Ssi Rum] Korea Ssi Rum Association
Dae Han Taekwondo Hyeophoi (K) [Common Usage] Korea Taekwondo Association
Dae Han Ushu Hyeophoi (K) [Common Usage] Korea Wushu Association
Dae Han Yudo Hoi (K) [Common Usage] Korea Yudo (Judo) Association
Dae Kwae Do (K) [Common Usage] painting that shows Tae Kyon sparring and Ssi Rum wrestling, created around 1846
Daeman (K) [Common Usage] Taiwan
daeryeon (K) [Common Usage] sparring
daeryeon guseong (K) [Taekwondo] sparring system
daeryeon ha da (K) [Common Usage] to spar
daetoigol (K) [Common Usage] femur
Da Fu Baatgwa (C) [Choy Leih Faht] (lit. Fighting the Tiger Baatgwa Form) a hand form
da gu (M) [Common Usage] to play the drum; usually done to accompany lion dances
Daht Ting Baatgwa (C) [Choy Leih Faht] (lit. Daht Ting's Eight Trigram Form) a hand form
Dai (J) [Karate, Kobudo] (lit. Large, Big) used in names of karate kata to identify the more difficult of two kata derived from the same original form; the use of Sho indicates the less complex of the two kata
dai (M) [Common Usage] see daai
dai bian (M) [Common Usage] see douh lei
dai biao (M) [Common Usage] see doih biu
dai cha (M) [Common Usage] to bring or to serve tea
daih (C) [Common Usage] to offer, to bring to someone, to serve
daih chah (C) [Common Usage] see dai cha
daih ji (C) [Wihng Cheun] see muhn yan
dai jong ma (C) [Common Usage] low horse stances
dai kong (C) [Common Usage] to resist
dai li (M) [Common Usage] see douh leih
daimyo (J) [Common Usage] (lit. Great Name) the lords of the feudal domains; the chief employers of samurai
Dai Nippon Butokuden Bu-jutsu Senmon Gakko (J) [Common Usage] a martial arts teacher's training college, established in 1911 at the Butokukai in Kyoto
Dai Nippon Butokukai (J) [Common Usage] (lit. Greater Japan Association of Martial Virtue) a nationwide martial arts organization, first established in 1895 in Kyoto, for the preservation and promotion of the modern martial arts
Dai Nippon Kyudo Kyohan (J) [Kyudo] a manual on the principles of kyudo published in 1934
Dai-Ni Seisan (O) [Karate] an Uechi-ryu kata that is a combination of Sanchin and Seisan
daisho (J) [Weapon] a set of long and short swords that were worn by all members of the warrior class
Dai Sing (C) [Style] a northern style founded by Kau Sae, based on the fighting movements of the monkey, divided into five forms: Drunken, Lost, Stone, Tall, and Wood Monkey
Dai Sing Pek Gwa (C) [Style] (lit. Great Sage Chopping and Raising) a northern style incorporating the fighting movements of the monkey founded by Gan Duk Hoi; it incorporates the Deih Sing style and the Pek Gwa style into one fighting system
daito (J) [Weapon] long sword
Daito-ryu (J) [style] a system of unarmed and armed combat systematized by Takeda Sokaku; it was studied by Ueshiba Morihei before he created modern aikido
dai wong (C) [Medicine] see daaih wong
dajio (O) [Weapon] a pair of short wooden rods joined by a long rope
daki age (J) [Judo] a technique in which the opponent is raised from the mat
dak jeuih (C) [Common Usage] to offend, to insult
da kuai hsing (M) [Yang Taijiquan] see da kuai xing
da kuai xing (M) [Yang Taijiquan] (lit. The Big Chief Star) a movement from the Yang Taiji Sword form
dallyeon