武术
wǔ shù 3–4
military skill or technique (in former times); all kinds of martial art sports (some claiming spiritual development); self-defense; tradition of choreographed fights from opera and film (recent usage); also called kungfu 功夫
- Characters
- 2
- 武 · 术
- Syllables
- 2
- wǔ shù
- Frequency
- Less common
- corpus count 9,314
Part of speech: n
Character by character
- 武wǔ8 strokesHSK 3military; martial, warlike
- 术shù5 strokesHSK 3 traditional 術art, skill, special feat; method, technique
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Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 武术. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 技术jì shùHSK 3
technology; technique; skill
- 手术shǒu shùHSK 4
(surgical) operation; surgery
- 艺术yì shùHSK 3
art
- 武器wǔ qìHSK 3
weapon; arms
- 武装wǔ zhuāngHSK 7
arms; equipment; to arm; military; armed (forces)
- 战术zhàn shùHSK 6
tactics
- 魔术mó shùHSK 7
magic
- 学术xué shùHSK 4
learning; science; academic
- 核武器hé wǔ qìHSK 7
nuclear weapon
- 美术měi shùHSK 3
art; fine arts; painting
- 武力wǔ lìHSK 7
military force
- 手术室shǒu shù shìHSK 7
operating room
- 高新技术gāo xīn jì shùHSK 7
high tech; high technology
- 武侠wǔ xiá
martial arts chivalry (Chinese literary, theatrical and cinema genre); knight-errant
- 印刷术yìn shuā shùHSK 7
printing; printing technology
- 造纸术zào zhǐ shùHSK 7
papermaking process