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I wrote most of this to date, but I still have no idea whether 'kyu' has a concrete translation. Does it mean 'junior' or 'junior grade' and can it be used to refer to the people with these grades? "Kyu-level practitioners" seems to be correct, but feels a bit clumsy. Or am I being over-protective?

Rednaxela 22:29, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

To the best of my knowledge, kyu just means class, level or grade. In terms of of useage I think you would use the word with the number, like 'yonkyu' to refer to the person with that rank, but I may be wrong.

[edit] Random Fact?

Someone keeps inserting a note that the word "kyu" is used to describe a crazy kid. An admittedly brief dictionary search found eleven homophones for "kyū" (きゅう), and four homophones for "kyu" (きゅ), none of which meant anything remotely related to "crazy kid". Assuming this is a slang usage, can whoever keeps adding this please provide some kind of citation, or at least assure us that it's actually the same kanji as the one meaning 'grade' (and not one of the other fourteen I found), thereby actually belonging in this article?Bradford44 15:30, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Western innovation?

The article says that color belts are not commonly used in Japan. Where did they originate? -Toptomcat 19:09, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Amount of kyu ranks

It was mentioned that aikido has 6 kyu ranks. Also Kodokan Judo and many Karate styles has only 6 kyu ranks for adults. (Aikido can hava 8 kyu ranks if junior ranks are counted, thought they are not used everywhere.) Korppi76 12:26, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't think that there is any standard in aikido. In the United States Aikido Federation, there are five kyu ranks that you can test for. Some people refer to students that haven't receive rank yet as 6th kyu, but as far as I know there is nothing official about that name. Some schools have 10-6th kyu for children. Edwin Stearns | Talk 19:03, 10 November 2006 (UTC)