"dojo" in Chinese?

**vikayo** · 06-25-2003, 04:35 AM

I always forget... who can help me again?

What's the proper Chinese term for the Japanese word "dojo" ?

**dezhen2001** · 06-25-2003, 04:44 AM

its not exactly the same but usually its "gwoon" in cantonese or "guan" in mandarin

dawood

**Kristoffer** · 06-25-2003, 04:45 AM

'Kwoon' I guess

**Kristoffer** · 06-25-2003, 04:45 AM

oh u beat me to it

**dezhen2001** · 06-25-2003, 04:48 AM

simple stuff is all im good for - but kinda spooky that we posted in EXACTLY the same minute

dawood

**Tainan Mantis** · 06-25-2003, 06:51 AM

In Chinese dojo is daochang.
If someone in Taiwan uses this term there is no doubt it is in reference to a Japanese style.

Chinese MA styles do not use the word dao for anything.
Dao, in Chinese refers to a religion which people take very seriously.

Kwoon or Guan is the term usually used in Chinese.

**Sho** · 06-25-2003, 07:22 AM

...and 'do cheung' in Cantonese.

**GeneChing** · 06-25-2003, 09:54 AM

It's dojang in Korean. I only know that because we used to publish a Korean arts mag called Dojang.

For what it's worth, guan (or kwoon) just means 'hall'. It can refer to a hotel, barbershop, teahouse, museum, gym, whatever. For a Kung Fu school, you should add "wu" as a prefix, meaning martial. Formerly it should be wuguan (or mo kwoon in Cantonese.) Dojo has a more spiritual connotation, since do (or Tao) is a spiritual way.

**Robinf** · 06-25-2003, 10:24 AM

Gene,
You beat me to it about Dojang. Let the TKDers out here appear knowledgeable.

**Shaolin-Do** · 06-25-2003, 10:35 AM

TKDers knowledgable?

meoughts a dao was also sword... Kwan dao?
Pu dao?
Dao?
could it also mean blade?
....?

**Robinf** · 06-25-2003, 10:43 AM

I thought doa was "way"

**dezhen2001** · 06-25-2003, 11:32 AM

same written in pinyin but different characters and tones as far as i remember

dawood

**vikayo** · 06-26-2003, 09:36 AM

thanks for the fast replies!

**GeneChing** · 06-26-2003, 10:19 AM

Here's a little lesson in Chinese. Without the tone or character, who knows what dao means? Chinese is very contextual.

In my abridged pocket dictionary, here are a few definations of dao:
knife, sword, pray, tread, fall, island, pound, lead, steal, mourn, way, arrive, turn up side down, and rice paddy.

**norther practitioner** · 06-26-2003, 10:26 AM

And that is why we get such lovely english dubbed movies from China.....lol

You will eat my sword can also mean you will eat my rice paddy...

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