Martial arts names, techniques, and forms are given in first Chinese characters,
then pinyin romanization, and finally in English translation. Martial art style names
are given in red, and all following terms in black are from that particular style.
站樁 | Zhan4zhuang1 | Post Standing - a power-building exercise |
氣功 | Qi4gong1 | Breath Skill |
內功 | Nei4gong1 | Internal Skill |
基本功 | Ji1ben3gong1 | Basic Skills |
發勁 | Fa1jin4 | Release Force - the skill of releasing internal power as a force |
振勁 | Zhen4jin4 | Vibrating Force - a high-level skill of releasing vibrating power |
形意拳 | Xing2yi4quan2 | Form Will Fist |
三體式 | San1ti3shi4 | Trinity Standing, a power-building exercise |
五形拳 | Wu3xing2quan2 | Five Element Fists |
劈拳 | Pi4quan2 | Splitting Fist - the first of the five elements |
崩拳 | Beng1quan2 | Smashing Fist - the second of the five elements |
鑽拳 | Zuan1quan2 | Drilling Fist - the third of the five elements |
炮拳 | Pao4quan2 | Pounding Fist - the fourth of the five elements |
橫拳 | Heng2quan2 | Crossing Fist - the fifth of the five elements |
五行連環拳 | Wu3xing2lian2huan2quan2 | Five Element Linking Fist - a basic form linking the 5 element techniques |
五形生克炮拳 | Wu3xing2sheng1ke4pao4quan2 | Five Element Creative and Destructive Cannon Fist - an intermediate form using the 5 elements |
十二形拳 | Shi2er4xing2quan2 | Twelve (Animals) Forms Fist - an intermediate form imitating different animals |
雜式捶 | Za2shi4chui2 | Mixed Forms Beating - an advanced form |
安身炮拳 | An1shen1pao4quan2 | Stable Body Pounding - an advanced two-person form |
八式 | Ba1shi4 | Eight Forms - an advanced form |
意拳 | Yi4quan2 | Mind Fist |
凌空勁 | Lin2kong1jin4 | Traversing-Space Force |
八卦掌 | Ba1gua4zhang3 | Eight Trigrams Palm |
走圈 | Zou3quan1 | Walking the Circle - the basic bagua exercise, which develops power, agility, and spiraling power |
大八掌 | Da4ba1zhang3 | Big Eight Palms |
單換掌 | Dan1huan4zhang3 | Single Palm Change - the first of the big eight palms |
雙換掌 | Shuang1huan4zhang3 | Double Palm Change - the second of the big eight palms |