06-24-2020, 01:15 PM
(06-24-2020, 12:14 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: FYIInteresting. Wuxia and youxia are very similar. I was looking at wikipedia's entry on wuxia and got the following, which I can almost untangle:
浪人 = Ronin = wave, wasteful, reckless; man, person
游侠 = Youxia = drift, wander, roam; chivalrous person, knight-errant
Youxia is a better fit but more in my circles know Ronin.
The word "wǔxiá" is a compound composed of the elements wǔ (武, literally "martial", "military", or "armed") and xiá (俠, literally "chivalrous", "vigilante" or "hero"). A martial artist who follows the code of xia is often referred to as a xiákè (俠客, literally "follower of xia") or yóuxiá (遊俠, literally "wandering xia").