Bai jong - on guard or ready stance

Bil gee - finger jab

Bil sau - palm down block

Bong sau - elbow up block

Bo pai - double palm strike

Chi gerk - sticky legs

Chi sau - sticky hands (sensitivity excercise)

Choap chuie - knuckle fist

Chum kiu - 2nd form of Wing Chun kung fu

Ch'ung chuie - verticle fist

Da - hit

Dan chi sau - single handed chi sau

Do - "the way"

Dum tek - stomp kick

Fak sau - whisking arm, sideways

Fook sau - bridging hand or bridge-on arm

Gaun sau - a low outside wrist block

Gerk - foot or leg

Gin lai - salute, salutation

Gin sau - uppercut

Gnoy pak - outside pak sau

Go - high level

Gua chuie - back fist

Gua tek - inverted hook kick

Gum sau - pressing hand

Ha - low level

Ha so tek - inverted sweep kick

Hay, Hey - begin

Hok sau - crane hand or a high outside block with uplifted wrist and fingers pointing down.

Hou tek - back kick

Huen sau - circling hand

Jang - elbow

Jao-sau - running hand

Jeet - to intercept

Jeet tek - intercepting kick / stop kick

Jik chung - vertical punch

Jik chung chuie - straightblast

Jik tek - straight kick

Joap hop - group together

Jong tao - headbutt

Juen tek - spin kick

Jung seen - centerline

Juk tek - side kick

Jum sau - sinking block

Jung - middle

Jut sau - jerking hand

Kau sau - circling block

Kune - fist

Kwan sau - bong & tan combination movement; also used for block with outer edge of wrist, palm up; similar to tan sau but goes in opposite direction to close off center.

Kwoon - school or training hall

Lan sau - bar arm

Lin Lop - cross grab

Lin sil die dar - simultaneous block and counter, absorb or bypass and continue without pause into counter.

Li sau - like a tan but without the diffusion / waist twist

Lop sau - grabbing hand

Lok sau - rolling hands, as in chi sau; also used for warding-off hands.

Loy pak - inside pak sau

Man sau - inquisitive hand, forward guarding hand.

Mook jong - wooden dummy

O'ou chuie - hooking fist

O'ou tek - hook kick or roundhouse kick

Pak sau - slapping hand

Ping chuie - horizontal fist

Phon sau - trapping hands

Sau - hand

Si bak - elder "gung fu" brother of "Sifu", instructor's senior.

Si dai - younger "gung fu" brother, junior, one who learned after you.

Sifu - your gung fu teacher

Si gung - grandfather, teacher of "Sifu".

Si hing - elder "gung fu" brother, senior, one who learned before you.

Si je - elder "gung fu" sister.

Si jo - founder of the style.

Si juk - "gung fu" nephew, student of "Si dai"

Sil lim tao - 1st form of Wing Chun - "the little idea"

Si mo - wife of "Si fu", "gung fu" mother, female teacher.

Si mui - younger "gung fu" sister.

Si sook - younger "gung fu" brother of "Sifu", instructor's junior.

Si sook gung - younger "gung fu" brother of "Si gung".

So tek - sweeping kick

Sol jee - sweeping fingers, chop to side as in the sil lim tao form.

Sut - knee

Sut sau - Knife Hand

Tan sau - palm up block

Toe dai - student

Toe suen - student's student

Tok sau - (double) upward palm, lifting hand technique.

Tung moon - fellow student, follower of the same style.

Woang pak - cross hand slap cover

Wu sau - "praying" palm, rear guard hand, guarding hand.

Yang - male, positive, true, hard, etc.

Yee gee kim yeung ma - character two stance, goat stance, basic Wíng Chun stance.

Yin - female, negative, false, soft, etc.

Yim Wíng Chun - [Yim (a family name) / chant / springtime] - a student of Ng Mòi and the girl for whom this system is named.

Yip Man - Yip (a family name) / continue / asking - born in 1898 in Fat Shan, died in 1972 in Hong Kong. He brought the Wíng Chun system to Hong Kong, where he taught it to the public, He was Bruce lee's first formal teacher in the martial arts.

Yu bay - ready