Noun: kung fu
| Singular | kung fu |
| Plural | kung fu |
Sample Sentences
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Everybody was kung-fu fighting / Those kicks were fast as lightning [1974, Carl Douglas, “Kung Fu Fighting”, performed by Carl Douglas:]
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Along the way, they meet Master Wong, who teaches them kung fu and imparts nuggets of Chinese philosophy, knowledge and training that they eventually use to defeat their nemesis and save their village. [2021 March 31, Melissa Chen, “Opinion ‘Kung Fu Cavemen’ isn’t racist — just the victim of moral panic by a self-righteous few”, in New York Post:]
Nouns inflected like kung fu
cement works,
Old World ROM,
mythopoetics,
zhenniao,
ichimon,
seinen,
sedoka,
semese,
sentai,
senryū,
senbei,
whapuku,
whapuka,
selbri,
Cinghalese,
sayori,
sansho,
sanies,
sanmai,
sangza, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 功夫 (gōngfu, “skill, accomplishment, martial art”): kung¹-fu⁵.
Verbs referencing "kung fu"
Finnish Nouns
kung-fu.