How to say "karate" in Japanese

• 空手からてCommon
  nounThe common word for karate, the martial art; use it whenever you simply mean the art itself — training, a match, a club — as it is almost always the word you want.
  空手からては武器ぶきを用もちいない護身術ごしんじゅつである。↗

  Karate is an art of unarmed defense.
• 空手道からてどう
  nounLess common; it means karate but with the nuance of 'the way of karate' — the art as a discipline or path of training — so it fits when that sense of a way is intended.

空手 is the common word and the default choice for karate the martial art; 空手道, which is less common, adds the nuance of 'the way of karate', presenting the art as a discipline.

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• 空手からてkarate
• 空手道からてどうthe way of karate