mou5 gun2武館武馆
Jyutpingmou5 gun2
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Definition
A martial arts school or kung-fu club.
colloquialpeopleplaces
How it's used
Historically, these places served as community hubs for clan members or workers to gather and practice self defense. While modern gyms have largely replaced them for fitness, the term still carries a strong cultural association with traditional lion dance training and lineage based instruction.
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gaan1間gānExamples
He learned kung fu at a martial arts school when he was young.
Does this martial arts school accept apprentices?
Related words
Common phrases
to open a martial arts school
Common mistake
Do not confuse this with 健身室, which refers to a modern fitness gym. Using 武館 to describe a place with treadmills and weight machines will sound very strange to locals.
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Grammar guides
- LocationHow to say where something is using 喺 (hai2), place words like 度, and the common coverbs that work like English prepositions.
- Serial verbsStringing two or more verbs together without any joining word, like go to the shop buy things. Extremely common in Cantonese.
- 將 disposalHow to move the object in front of the verb with 將, to focus on what happens to it. Common in instructions and writing.
