Chinese for Martial Arts

[Martin2]

Counting strokes, yes a problem for a lot of interested people. Without - hard to use a Chinese dictionary

My wife (who is a school teacher, Taijiquan teacher and knows chinese) saw the problem and wrote a little workbook (with a lot of characters from the topic of Taijiquan) about it. After going through the workbook, one has a deep insight into Chinese characters and can use a Chinese dictionary. Here one can find it (Sorry costs 3,- pounds, but printing in small amounts is not cheap):

Taijiquan-Lilun Workbook Issue 1 - Chinese Characters for Beginners (with tests and solutions):

http://www.wutaichi.org/book.asp

Here at the bottom one finds a pdf example page:

http://www.wutaichi.org/articles.asp

Greetings

Martin2

Sorry for the advertisment, if it is not OK delete it, but I think a lot of people have this problem and know no solution.

[I-mon]

good job fong.

what's about

shoulder blade?
chin? (shao2ba1?)
forehead?
sacrum?
coccyx?

pelvis is gu3pan3 (tones?)
ribs = le4gu3
skin = pi2fu1
muscle = ji2rou4
tendon = jin4
joint = guan1jie3
bone = gu3tou2
fingertips shou3zhi3tou2

i'll edit and look up characters and correct tones later

[kreese]

Nice. I think muscle is ji1 rou4; sounds just like "chicken meat", but with a different character for ji.

[chicagoTaiJi]

Counting strokes, yes a problem for a lot of interested people. Without - hard to use a Chinese dictionary

interestingly, knowing the radicals is much more useful than knowing how to count the strokes.

once you can find the radical, you can easily look at the 9/10/11 stroke categories.

but finding the right radical can be quite tricky sometimes.

[Martin2]

Hello ChicagoTaiji,

You are completely right.

That's why in the Workbook are a lot of pages to train to find the radical.
Is it above, below, left, right or surrounding etc.
Good fun.

As in Taijiquan - not enough to know, one must train it.

Greetings

Martin2

[Strange]

打人如挂画 (贴在墙上不说话)
hit/fight someone should be like hanging a pic on the wall (the fela just stick there and can't say a word)

[meeks]

Dim Mak is a Cantonese word, not sure how you want to treat Cantonese terms in the glossary

dian xue - death touch.

just kidding. translates as press meridian.