Chang Hon Pattern Name & Meanings

Pattern Name & Meanings

When I was first taught the Ch’ang Hon /Chon Ji patterns as a kid, we never called them by name, we called them off by numbers, pattern 1, pattern 2, and so forth. But then, at a later date, we started to use the names instead of the number they fell in. And we were told the basics as are pretty much told to this day. However, having a good grasp of the Korean language and Hangul and Hanja (Kanji) I learned later that there is some “deeper” meaning to the majority of the patterns we are doing. Now, this is not going to be an article touting which organizations’ patterns are better, just simply some deeper insight into the names of the Ch’ang Hon patterns.

Those of you who practice and teach these set of patterns generally only know the “textbook” definition of the name of the patterns, usually from your instructors and sometimes from books such as Gen. Choi’s Taekwon-Do Condensed and 15 Vol. Encyclopedias, GM Hee Il Cho’s and GM Jhoon Rhee’s books, all of which have been around for some time, so I will not put the “textbook” meanings here, they are readily available in the above-mentioned books, and all over the internet. But, these books are more worried about the technical aspects of the patterns, rather than, the names or the deeper meaning behind the names. Below is a chart of the Ch’ang Hon set names, their meanings, and the Hangul and Hanja of each. Some of the translations are literal, while some I had to take a certain “poetic license” with.

Published on: Aug 26, 2000, @ 13:35