Etymology

mudansha

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Today it means: An unranked or beginning practitioner of Japanese martial arts. Full definition →

Japanese 無段者
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  1. Japanese · borrowed from無段者
  2. English todaymudansha

From Japanese 無段者 (mudansha, literally “one without a dan”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.