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Softness Overcomes Hardness
沖縄剛柔館 is the martial arts style Okinawan Gojukan or Okinawan Goju-Kan.
The meaning is “Okinawa hardness [and] softness hall.”
沖縄 = Okinawa.
剛 = Hard, firm, or strong.
柔 = Soft, softness, flexible, supple, yielding, gentleness, or pliant.
館 = Hall, building, school room, or an alternate word for a dojo.
Alternate / Japanese version
柔軟性 is the Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and Korean Hanja word that means “flexibility.”
It can also mean “compatibility,” “pliability,” “softness” and “elasticity.”
See Also: Flexibility | Cooperation
剛柔 is a term that means hardness and softness or hard and soft.
剛柔 is also the Chinese character origin of the martial arts style known as Cương Nhu.
Cương Nhu or Cuong Nhu was founded by Grandmaster Ngo Dong in 1965 in Hue, Vietnam, and brought to the U.S. in 1971.
剛 means hard, firm, strong, and just.
柔 means soft, flexible, supple, yielding, softness, and/or gentleness.
Until it was romanized in the mid-17th century by Portuguese missionaries with later influence by French missionaries, Vietnamese was exclusively written in Chinese characters. With some research, you can still figure out the original way to write most Vietnamese words and titles in Chinese characters. That is what I did here to figure out that Cuong Nhu would have been 剛柔 if established in ancient Vietnam.
Same characters are used in Japanese for various Goju schools of Okinawan martial arts, though not the same lineage as the Vietnamese style described above.
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Flexibility
Flexibility Overcomes Strength
Gentleness
Resilience / Flexibility
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your softness search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
柔 see styles |
róu rou2 jou juu / ju じゅう |
More info & calligraphy: Heart of Judo(ant: 剛) softness; gentleness; weakness; (surname, female given name) Yawara Pliant, yielding, soft. |
欲 see styles |
yù yu4 yü yoku よく |
to wish for; to desire; variant of 慾|欲[yu4] greed; craving; desire; avarice; wants; (surname) Yoku rājas, passion. Also kāma, desire, love. The Chinese word means to breathe after, aspire to, desire, and is also used as 慾 for lust, passion; it is inter alia intp. as 染愛塵 tainted with the dust (or dirt) of love, or lust. The three desires are for beauty, demeanour, and softness; the five are those of the five physical senses. |
剛柔 see styles |
goujuu / goju ごうじゅう |
More info & calligraphy: Cuong Nhu |
柔軟性 see styles |
juunansei / junanse じゅうなんせい |
More info & calligraphy: Flexibility |
以柔克剛 以柔克刚 see styles |
yǐ róu kè gāng yi3 rou2 ke4 gang1 i jou k`o kang i jou ko kang |
More info & calligraphy: Flexibility Overcomes Strength |
三欲 see styles |
sān yù san1 yu4 san yü sanyoku |
three lusts, i. e. for 形貌 form, 姿態 carriage or beauty, and 細觸refinement, or softness to the touch. |
六欲 see styles |
liù yù liu4 yu4 liu yü rokuyoku |
The six sexual attractions arising from color; form; carriage; voice (or speech); softness (or smoothness); and features. |
硬軟 硬软 see styles |
yìng ruǎn ying4 ruan3 ying juan kounan / konan こうなん |
hardness and softness; hard line and moderate line Hard and soft. |
軟性 see styles |
nansei / nanse なんせい |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) softness; flexibility; elasticity |
軟質 see styles |
nanshitsu なんしつ |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) softness |
剛と柔 see styles |
goutojuu / gotoju ごうとじゅう |
(expression) hardness and softness |
細滑欲 细滑欲 see styles |
xì huá yù xi4 hua2 yu4 hsi hua yü saikotsuyoku |
Sexual attraction through softness and smoothness. |
柔らかさ see styles |
yawarakasa やわらかさ |
softness; tenderness |
柔らかみ see styles |
yawarakami やわらかみ |
(touch of) softness |
柔らかめ see styles |
yawarakame やわらかめ |
(adj-no,adj-na,n) softness; comparatively soft |
柔らか目 see styles |
yawarakame やわらかめ |
(adj-no,adj-na,n) softness; comparatively soft |
軟らかさ see styles |
yawarakasa やわらかさ |
softness; tenderness |
Variations: |
yawarakasa やわらかさ |
softness; tenderness |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Flexibility Overcomes Strength | 以柔克剛 以柔克刚 | yǐ róu kè gāng yi3 rou2 ke4 gang1 yi rou ke gang yiroukegang | i jou k`o kang ijoukokang i jou ko kang |
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Gojukan Goju-Kan | 剛柔館 刚柔馆 | gou juu kan goujuukan go ju kan | ||
Okinawan Goju-Kan | 沖縄剛柔館 沖縄刚柔馆 | okinawa gou juu kan okinawagoujuukan okinawa go ju kan | ||
Flexibility | 柔軟性 柔软性 | junansei | róu ruǎn xìng rou2 ruan3 xing4 rou ruan xing rouruanxing | jou juan hsing joujuanhsing |
Cuong Nhu | 剛柔 | gou juu / goujuu / go ju | gāng róu / gang1 rou2 / gang rou / gangrou | kang jou / kangjou |
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. |
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