The solid and broken bars in the eight image tiles in the top navigation are called trigrams. The octagonal trigram pattern is a common symbol for the Chinese term Bagua. The pattern has eight (ba) areas (guas). "South" is always found at the top of the Bagua. Each trigram represents a particular natural phenomena: Sky ☰, Lake ☱, Fire ☲, Thunder ☳, Wind ☴, Water ☵, Mountain ☶, Earth ☷. If you click on a , it will take you to the corresponding taekwondo form page. Each form has a trigram which I describe scientifically and call scigrams. The animation in the middle of the tiles is supposed to represent a kicking woman. A tangram is a puzzle which originated in China. It is created out of seven flat polygons that can be put together to form shapes.
According to the wiki, Hangul was designed so that even a commoner could learn to read and write; the Haerye says "A wise man can acquaint himself with them before the morning is over; a stupid man can learn them in the space of ten days." How long will it take you to learn just enough Hangul to complete this crossword?
In order to solve the crossword on this page, you have to learn just enough Hangul to put ten words into the crossword in Hangul characters (i.e.,without transliteration). All of the words can be found on this website. The words are:
single knife hand | 한손날 | han sonnal |
uniform | 도복 | tobuk |
martial arts school | 도장 | dojang |
spear hand | 손끝 | sonkkut |
block | 막기 | makki |
no | 아니요 | anio |
return | 바로 | parot |
high | 아래 | arae |
palm-heel | 바탕손 | patangson |
stance | 서기 | sogi |
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