The story
- Mandarin · borrowed from功夫“skill, accomplishment, martial art”
- English todaykung fu
From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 功夫 (gōngfu, “skill, accomplishment, martial art”): kung¹-fu⁵.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
kung fu
Today it means: A Chinese martial art. Full definition →
Mandarin 功夫