There is no one German word to mean both empty and hand.
The German translation for hand is Hand
The German translation for empty is leer
Karate means 'Empty Hand'
Karate literally means empty hand in Japanese.
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).
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
Empty
Which word means 'empty out
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.
空手 /ka ra te/ is a Japanese word, for a Japanese martial arts. It means 'empty hand'.
The German word for handball is Handball.
It originated with the Chinese characters and was created in Okinawa. Kara - empty, Te - hand But the symbols for empty and foreign were very similar in Okinawan and as a kind of strange joke, even though karate from Okinawa, it incorporated aspects of White Crane kung fu from China so it was nicknamed foreign hand, karate. But now it just means empty, but not necessarily of weapons it means empty of wickedness and anger, Funikoshi (founder of modern Shotokan karate) described it as like a mirror reflects what lays before it...
The name Rykan comes from a German word "Reichen." The word is a German verb meaning 'to hand over' or 'to reach.' It could also be derived from the German "Reich" which means 'rich' or 'domain.'
"houpacker" means nothing in German; it is not a German word.