WING CHUN

Wing Chun is the most common romanization, from the Cantonese pronunciation (simplified Chinese: 咏春; traditional Chinese: 詠春; Cantonese Yale: Wing⁶ Cheun¹; pinyin: Yǒng Chūn; literally: "Spring Chant"). It is also romanized as Ving Tsun or Wing Tsun, and sometimes the characters are substituted with a homonym 永春 (Cantonese Yale: Wing⁶ Cheun¹; literally: "Eternal Spring"). Even though it could be considered a linguistically erroneous romanization at least from English-speaking countries perspective, especially in Finland,^[1][2][3] Germany^[4][5][6] and Turkey^[7] (and as a commonplace term in some other countries such as Austria,^[8] Bulgaria,^[9] Italy,^[10][11][12] Slovakia^[13]).

The alternative characters 永春 "eternal spring" are also associated with some other southern Chinese martial arts, including Weng Chun Kung Fu and Yong Chun.^[14][15]