散打

sǎndǎ

noun #41,645

Meanings

HSK 6

散打比赛允许踢、打、摔三种技术。

Sǎndǎ bǐsài yǔnxǔ tī, dǎ, shuāi sān zhǒng jìshù.

Sanda competitions allow kicking, striking, and throwing.

HSK 7-9

他练了十年散打，基本功非常扎实。

Tā liàn le shí nián sǎndǎ, jīběngōng fēicháng zhāshi.

He's trained sanda for ten years; his fundamentals are rock solid.

culture

Sanda (散打) is the modern competitive combat form of Chinese martial arts, developed in the 1960s. Also called 散手 (sǎnshǒu).

mistakes

The character 散 has two readings: sǎn (loose, scattered) here, not sàn (disperse). The standard reading for this word is sǎn.

散 sàn

打 dǎ