Question for the Chinese speking guys on the board

[Royal Dragon]

Does "San Pan" Mean "Three gates?"

[prana]

sounds like 3 pieces of wood. Could just be the pronunciation or my interpretation of your spelling

I take that back, sounds more like Mountain (San) Wood (Pan)...



Kinda like Flower Bridge is Fa-Q in Catonese ?

[dezhen2001]

Kinda like Flower Bridge is Fa-Q in Catonese ?

LMAO mate!

dawood

[SevenStar]

Originally posted by prana

Kinda like Flower Bridge is Fa-Q in Catonese ?

Nice.

[SevenStar]

I actually had intended on posting a thread like this too. Someone gave me a lamp that says

"Bo Yi Deng Shi"

what's that mean?

step, first, deng?, four ??

Those words have to have other meanings. But then also, I don't speak chinese, so I could be dead wrong on my guesses.

[prana]

"Bo Yi Deng Shi"


step, first, deng?, four ??

Jeepers, those things are always cryptic and its hard to figure out from english pronunciation. Even then, my mandarine is weak ( it sounds like mandarine ).



Actually the last one could also be mandarine San = 3 Pan = ???

I give up, some other chinese wanna help please ?

[Shaolin Master]

San = 3
Pan = Level/Plane/Plate

[Lao_Peng_You]

Without the characters, it is always difficult to know. So, it could mean: Remove the first rate corpse
But in this context it probably means: Erudite first rate teacher

[prana]

Lao Peng You - Old Friend I like your nick

[SevenStar]

Thanks, guys! I prefer the latter translation

[dezhen2001]

Even then, my mandarine is weak

seem to be doing ok buddy just think of me - a smattering of cantonese, mandarin and now arabic all with a scottish accent

dawood

[Former castleva]

Without the tones,we can come up with roughly 5 meanings for san and five meanings for pan,at best.
And without specific dialect,maybe more...
still left humbled.

[Royal Dragon]

It is interesting that the word San seems manderan to some. The word San Pan is the name of a Southern Tai Tzu style.


San = 3
Pan = Level/Plane/Plate

Reply]
This is "suposed" to be the name of the 6th set from one of the Tai Tzu lines I am researching. I have it called "Three Tangles" on one video. It's the same tape I sent Shaolin Master a ways back. You got the Chinese version though, it may be different than the English copy I have. Unfortunetly, the set itself is not shown, just talked about.

There are also two seperate sets called 4 doors on that tape, the first one IS 4 doors, but the second I have seen called Both "Cutting Slice", and "Whipping slice", so there are inaccuraceis (kind'a like my spell'n ).

From what I can see, both Cutting Slice, and Whipping Slice are two seperat sets from the Southern system, not different names for the same set.

Question, how would you say "Three Tangles" in Manderian, and Cantonese?? I know I really should sit down with a Chinese speaking person, and record them translating the tape, but I don't know any Chinee speaking people that would be willing to do it.

[illusionfist]

San Pan could be a bad romanization of San Ping which means three levels in mandarin (sam ping/peng in cantonese, the same ping thats in sei ping ma). Tangle on the other hand could be chan (chin in cantonese). Its a lot easier to figure out if you have the characters because some words that are similar, like tangle and intertwine, tie, etc all have very different characters yet in english can be used to mean the same thing in certain instances.

Peace

[Serpent]

I agree. In southern (Cantonese) three would be sam (pronounced sarm), not san.

This is fairly futile without the Chinese characters though.