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Definition of Kung fu
1. Noun. A Chinese martial art.
Definition of Kung fu
1. Noun. Any Chinese martial art. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kung Fu
Literary usage of Kung fu
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Theater by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Evan-Moor, Michael Ryall, Don Robison (2003)
"There he was introduced to kung fu and became increasingly skilled at this martial
art. By the time he returned to the United States in his early 20s, ..."
2. Small Me: A Story of Shanghai Life (1922)
""And so, very learned Sir, both you and the wise kung fu Tse, whom you call
Confucius, were wrong when you said that only the fool goeth to court twice. ..."
3. The Evolution of Man and His Mind: A History and Discussion of the Evolution by Shobal Vail Clevenger (1902)
"Confucius, or Kung-fu-tzee, the great Chinese philosopher, was born BC 551 and
did not claim to be gifted above others, he merely strove after the good and ..."
4. Vocabulary and Hand-book of the Chinese Language . . . Romanized in the by Justus Doolittle (1872)
"... man or u-ocd cutter, Щ ^ Work rr labor, JQ ^ kung fu; in place of another,
... I ^ 'ti 'ta tso kung fu; ..."
5. Short Studies in the Science of Comparative Religions: Embracing All the by James George Roche Forlong (1897)
"He was 70 years of age, a widower with a cripple son, when he married again in
550 a daughter of the Yen clan, and Kung-fu-tsze was born the following year, ..."
6. Adventure Guide China by Simon Foster (2008)
"Hong Kong can be called the home of kung fu flicks and is still the ...
Although these early films were popular within China, the first kung fu movies to ..."
7. The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal (1871)
"NOTES QUERIES ANS REPUES, KUNG-FU X ^. NOTE 17.—The Chinese have a mode of treating
many diseases by various ways of breathing, while the patients are ..."
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