练拳

練拳

liànquán

verb #33,495

Meanings

1 to practice martial arts
2 to do boxing/kung fu drills
3 to train in a fist-art form

Characters

to practice; to drill

fist; martial-arts form

Examples

爷爷每天早上去公园练拳。

Yéye měitiān zǎoshang qù gōngyuán liànquán.

Grandpa goes to the park to practice martial arts every morning.

他从小练拳，身手很好。

Tā cóngxiǎo liànquán, shēnshǒu hěn hǎo.

He has trained in martial arts since childhood and is very skilled.

Tips

culture

练拳 covers the whole spectrum from 太极拳 (Tai Chi) practiced by retirees in parks to serious 武术 (wǔshù) training in 长拳, 形意拳, 咏春拳 etc. It's a verb-object compound: 练 'practice' + 拳 (literally 'fist') used as shorthand for any fist-based martial art.

Stroke Order

练 liàn

拳 quán