is a Japanese term used in modern martial arts as well as in tea ceremony, flower arranging, Go, shogi, academic tests and other similar activities to designate various grades, levels or degrees of proficiency or experience. In Mandarin Chinese, the same character is pronounced jí, and the term is used for academic tests. In Korea, the term geup () is used (also transliterated as gup or kup). In Vietnamese martial arts, it is known as cấp (khớp).
Key facts
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- Coloured belts are worn by kyū ranked practitioners in many martial arts, including judo, karate, aikido, Kuk Sool Won and taekwondo.
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- Academic tests usage
- List of kyū ranks
- Coloured belts
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- References
is a Japanese term used in modern martial arts as well as in tea ceremony, flower arranging, Go, shogi, academic tests and other similar activities to designate various grades, levels or degrees of proficiency or experience. In Mandarin Chinese, the same character is pronounced jí, and the term is used for academic tests. In Korea, the term geup () is used (also transliterated as gup or kup). In Vietnamese martial arts, it is known as cấp (khớp).
==History== The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department started a ranking system using kyū to measure the police officers' ability in Kendo. Grades were from 8th to 1st.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “kyū” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.