Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gun kata

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.80 in modern English

Syllables: gun ka-ta
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of gun fu (a style of balletic gunplay in action films)

Uncountable

noun

A fictional martial art based on gun fu.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"I learn from Nick Nunziata at www.CHUD.com that the form of battle used in the movie is “Gun-Kata,” which is “a martial art completely based around guns.” I credit Nunziata because I think he may have invented this term."
"The early 21st century. The totalitarian state of Libria has been established following a third world war and is presided over by the ubiquitous video-image of ‘Father’. To maintain harmony, the populace are forced to self-medicate with the emotion-suppressant Prozium. Sense Offenders, who skip doses and secretly hoard artworks, are hunted down by an elite squad of Clerics, trained in the martial art Gun-Kata (which enables its practitioners to predict the path of bullets fired at them)."

Etymology

Compound of gun + kata (“martial art movements”), from Japanese 型 (kata, “style, pattern”). Attested from, and possibly coined around 2003 for the film Equilibrium (see quotation below).

Origin

Source language: Japanese

Word Breakdown

Root: 型

Usage

Uncountable

Phrases

gun-kata

Synonyms

gun fu

Questions

What does gun kata mean?: Synonym of gun fu (a style of balletic gunplay in action films)
Where does gun kata come from?: It is traced to Japanese.

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