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Karate
Kara is a character that can be translated as China or Empty.
Te translates as Hand.
Karate evolved as a combination of the local Okinawa art of Te, a form of combat combined with Chinese White Crane Kung Fu.
In the early part of the century, the lead martial artists on Okinawa got together and agreed that they should use the term Empty, one reason be to avoid issues with the Japanese that were taking control of the area.
Karate, also know as the way of the empty hand.
Kara is the Japanese word for empty while te is Japanese for hand. From this we get the word Karate, meaning empty hand. However, before karate became popular, it had a different translation. Kara also means Chinese and the accepted translation for Karate was Chinese hand. This was changed when Gichin Funakoshi suggested the modern translation of empty hand.
The term used for hands is te. It is a part of the name Kara-te, or empty hand, the martial art that originated in Okinawa.
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Karate comes from Okinawa. It is based on the ancient art of kung fu from China combined with the local Okinawa art of te. From there it went to Japan and from there it went to Korea where it was combined with the local martial art and became what we know as Tae kwon do.
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