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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

道场

Pronunciation / Transliteration: dào chǎng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Dojo/ˈdoʊ.dʒoʊ/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"武术家在道场里传授武艺。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A room or hall where martial arts are practiced.

    "The students bowed respectfully before entering the dojo for their karate lesson."
  2. 2

    A specialized workplace or environment for training, practicing, and improving specific skills, often in software development or agile methodologies.

    "The engineering team set up a coding dojo to practice test-driven development."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Japanese words 'dō' (way, path) and 'jō' (place), originally meaning a place of practicing Buddhism. Over time, its meaning shifted to refer specifically to a hall or room for practicing Japanese martial arts such as karate, judo, or aikido.

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