Empty hand is Karate, a Japanese martial art.
カラオケ (karaoke)
Karate is the martial art whose name means "empty hand" in Japanese.
Karate literally means "empty hand" (kara=empty, te=hand)
Karate means 'Empty Hand'
Karate literally means empty hand in Japanese.
空手 /ka ra te/ is a Japanese word, for a Japanese martial arts. It means 'empty hand'.
The word 空手 (karate) literally means 'empty hand' in Japanese. This word is commonly used in both English and Japanese to refer to the Japanese martial art. 空 (kara) - empty 手 (te) - hand
It comes from Japanese, kara, meaning empty and te, meaning hand.Technically it should be karate-do, do means way so it becomes the way of the empty hand. By empty hand here they mean without weapons.
'Karaoke' is used to mean what it means in English -- that is, it refers to singing over pre-recorded music. However, it comes from the Japanese words 'kara' meaning "empty" and 'oke' which is an abbreviation of "orchestra." (Ookesutora in Japanese). Thus, karaoke is "empty orchestra," or just the musical part of a song without the vocals. In modern karaoke, the main voice or voices have been digitally removed. Originally the term was applied to any prerecorded music rather than an actual orchestra. Kara (Empty) Oke (orchestra)
The Japanese word for "sport" is supootsu, pronounced "soo-poh-tissoo".
'Kara', as in 'karaoke', literally 'empty orchestra'.