kiai
Sign in to saveIn Japanese martial arts a is a short shout uttered when performing an assault.
Key facts
- Martial art term.kanji
- 気合
- Martial art term.hiragana
- きあい
- Martial art term.revhep
- kiai
- Martial art term.hangul
- 기합
- Martial art term.hanja
- 氣合
- Martial art term.rr
- gihap
- Martial art term.mr
- kihap
- Martial art term.wah
- 華
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In Japanese martial arts a is a short shout uttered when performing an assault.
Traditional Japanese dojo generally uses single syllables beginning with a vowel. The practice has become a part of Asian martial arts in popular culture, especially in martial arts films, in writing often rendered in variants such as Hi-yah!, Aiyah!, Eeee-yah! or Hyah!. A kiai is usually not the word "kiai" itself.
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