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Robert Crandal

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Jul 15, 2012, 5:52:57 AM7/15/12
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Does anyone know what this means:

"敬力勇忍"

I tried running "敬力" and "勇忍" separately through jisho.org but I
got no results.

I'm guessing it just means 4 concepts strung together: Respect, Power,
Bravery, Endurance,
but not sure yet.

Thanks!


Fatman

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Jul 15, 2012, 1:58:40 PM7/15/12
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Where did you find that?
I think such a phrase does not exist in Japanese.
That may be a kind of tatoo design or something like that made by
American people arbitrarily.
In American movies,I sometimes found such a word that is not clear in
meaning.





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Robert Crandal

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Jul 15, 2012, 3:41:54 PM7/15/12
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It is printed on a MMA type T-shirt.


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Tad Perry

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Jul 15, 2012, 7:48:10 PM7/15/12
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It could easily be one of those four-letter compounds out of Chinese.
Japanese borrowed a lot of them, but not all of them.
Try the Chinese newsgroup and they may know it.

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Ben Finney

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Jul 15, 2012, 11:03:13 PM7/15/12
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"Robert Crandal" <rcranz...@gmail.com> writes:

> It is printed on a MMA type T-shirt.

Which MMA do you mean?

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Robert Crandal

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Jul 16, 2012, 6:20:34 AM7/16/12
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The only MMA that I know of "Mixed Martial Arts", the brand typically
associated with brazilian jiujitsu.




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Jim Beard

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Jul 16, 2012, 10:37:24 PM7/16/12
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I am confident you are on the right track, but the meaning more likely
approximates to

Etiquette, effort, courage, perseverance

That sort of list of virtues emphasized by a particular school or style
of martial arts is not uncommon.

Shonan-ryu Karate-Dou briefly had an outpost at Oklahoma State University
in the mid-1960s. Their corresponding list (in English) was

Honesty, sincerity, effort, etiquette, self-control

Cheers!

jim b.

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