terminology

japanese numbers

  1. ichi  一
  2. ni  二
  3. san  三 
  4. shi  四
  5. go  五
  6. roku  六
  7. shichi  七
  8. hachi  八
  9. ku  九
  10. ju  十

korean numbers

  1. il  일
  2. e  이
  3. sam  삼
  4. sa  사
  5. o  오
  6. yuk  육
  7. chil  칠
  8. pal  팔
  9. gu  구
  10. sip  십
 

dojo vocabulary

  1. anza - crossed-legs sitting posture
  2. ba shi - 8 basic stances
  3. dan - degree
  4. dobok - training uniform (Korean)
  5. dojang - training hall (Korean)
  6. dojo - training hall (Japanese)
  7. geup / kyu - rank
  8. ghi - training uniform (Japanese) 
  9. hajime - command for “begin"
  10. hanmi - natural fighting stance
  11. ippon kumite - one-step fighting
  12. ka - practitioner
  13. kata - form, formal exercise
  14. kihon - basics
  15. kohai - martial arts students
  16. kumite - fighting, free sparring
  17. mudansha - holders of student ranks
  18. randori - uninterrupted mock combat
  19. rei - bow
  20. seiza - knee-sitting posture
  21. sensei - instructor
  22. senpai - senior student, student teacher
  23. shikko - knee-walking
  24. sunbae - upperclassman
  25. tori - one demonstrating technique
  26. uke - one attacking or receiving technique, block
  27. ukemi - breakfall
  28. unsoku - foot movement
  29. yame (ahh) - command for "stop" or "reset"
  30. yudansha - holders of black belt ranks

appellations

  1. aikido - the way of harmony
  2. carucado - Carolina Unarmed Combative Defense Organization
  3. chang moo kwan -  building a martial arts house
  4. cheonjikido - the way of a heaven lake
  5. chuan fa - the way of the fist
  6. daito-ryu aiki-jujutsu - harmonious principles of combat from the eastern school
  7. hombu aikikai - aikido as manmade religion
  8. indigenous tomiki aikido - combat aikido (Kenji Tomiki: "What I studied at that time was Daito-ryu aikijujutsu, not aikido, so I don't understand present-day aikido")
  9. jiujitsu - yielding art
  10. judo - martial sport, way of gentleness
  11. karate - empty hand
  12. kendo - way of the blade
  13. kobudo - the way of weapons
  14. kung fu - martial skill
  15. kwon bop kong soo do - way of fist law AND empty hand
  16. kyusho-jitsu  - pressure point principles of combat
  17. naha-te - Naha hand, art of subduing
  18. shodokan - Sho's house for the study of the way, sport aikido
  19. shotokan - Shoto's house
  20. shudokan - house for the cultivation of the way
  21. shuri-te - Shuri hand, art of destroying
  22. taekwondo - hand and foot technique
  23. teashikido - japanese translation of korean taekwondo
  24. tomiki aikido - competition-based aikido
  25. tuite - taking hand, art of joint lock

weapons

  1. bo - long staff
  2. bokken - wooden training sword
  3. escrima - a pair of short sticks
  4. jo - short staff
  5. kama - traditional Japanese sickle
  6. katana - Japanese long sword
  7. kissaki - sword point
  8. nunchaku - traditional Okinawan weapon consisting of two sticks connected by a chain or rope
  9. sai - traditional Okinawan 3-pronged melee weapon
  10. saya - sword scabbard
  11. tachi - Japanese cavalry sword
  12. tanto - knife
  13. tsuba - sword guard
  14. tsuka - sword handle
  15. wakizashi - Japanese short sword

martial principles

  1. aiki - static expression of ki, state of body/soul harmony
  2. atemi - strike or blow
  3. budo - martial art
  4. bujutsu - martial science
  5. bunkai - disassembly for application
  6. chudan - middle target
  7. dachi - stance
  8. gedan - lower target
  9. geri - kick
  10. goshin ho - self defense technique
  11. happo zanshin - 8-directional alertness
  12. hiji waza - elbow technique
  13. itten (hara) - physical center of body, approximately 3 inches below navel
  14. jodan - upper target
  15. kamae - maintaining center line
  16. ki - life energy, vitality
  17. kiai - dynamic expression of ki, exertion of body/soul harmony
  18. kokuro - heart, indomitable spirit
  19. kokyu chikara - breath power
  20. kote-hineri - wrist twist
  21. kote-mawashi - wrist torque
  22. kote-gaeshi - wrist turn
  23. kuzushi - disturbing balance
  24. ma-ai - harmony of space, art of maintaining proper distance
  25. muchimi - adhesion, sticky hands
  26. mushin - state of no mind
  27. musubi - art of blending
  28. ryoku - technique, exertion
  29. shin - concentrated focus
  30. shugyo - austere training
  31. shuto - knife hand
  32. tai-sabaki - whole body movement, avoidance
  33. tekubi waza - wrist technique
  34. uki waza - floating technique
  35. unsui - cloud water
  36. waza - technique
  37. yang - active principle of the material world
  38. yin - passive principle of the material world
  39. zanshin - focused alert form
  40. zuki - punch