Karate means 'Empty Hand'
空手 /ka ra te/ is a Japanese word, for a Japanese martial arts. It means 'empty hand'.
Karate literally means empty hand in Japanese.
The word 空手 (karate) literally means 'empty hand' in Japanese. This word is commonly used in both English and Japanese to refer to the Japanese martial art. 空 (kara) - empty 手 (te) - hand
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'Kara', as in 'karaoke', literally 'empty orchestra'.
It comes from Japanese, kara, meaning empty and te, meaning hand.Technically it should be karate-do, do means way so it becomes the way of the empty hand. By empty hand here they mean without weapons.
Which word means 'empty out
There are two symbols that make up the word karate. Te is translated as hand. The character Kara can be translated in two ways, either empty or China. In the 1930's the Okinawa masters gathered and agreed that they would use the word empty for the art.
The word karate is a Japanese word for the particular Martial Arts style. The word karate means "empty hand" (kara empty, te hand) and was earlier known simply as "hand" or "Chinese hand" after it was developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom (Okinawa).
'Karaoke' is used to mean what it means in English -- that is, it refers to singing over pre-recorded music. However, it comes from the Japanese words 'kara' meaning "empty" and 'oke' which is an abbreviation of "orchestra." (Ookesutora in Japanese). Thus, karaoke is "empty orchestra," or just the musical part of a song without the vocals. In modern karaoke, the main voice or voices have been digitally removed. Originally the term was applied to any prerecorded music rather than an actual orchestra. Kara (Empty) Oke (orchestra)
The prefix "vac" means empty or devoid of something. It is derived from the Latin word "vacuus" which means empty.