Shuai Chiao 摔跤
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The word "shuai," 摔, stands for "to throw onto the ground", while "Chiao" may be one of two characters: the first and oldest, 角, stands for "horns" and the second and recent, 跤, stands for "wrestle or trip using the legs". Shuai Chiao therefore means either "to throw onto the ground using horns" or "to throw onto the ground through wrestling with legs".
If one is figurative rather than literal with the translation of "horns" it could be interpreted to connote raw, animal-like competition. This more figurative translation yields a third possible translation of the term shuai Chiao as meaning "competing to throw".
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