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== Name == ''Hapkido'' or {{lang|ko|합기도}} in the native Korean writing system [[hangul]] is rendered as {{linktext|合|氣|道}} in [[hanja]]. This is similar to how the [[Japanese martial art|Japanese]] ''[[aikido]]'' was written using [[kyūjitai]] in the pre-1946 period. Currently, though, the second character is preferably written in Japanese using [[shinjitai]], which replaces the original [[氣]] with the modern, simplified {{linktext|気}}, thus reducing the number of strokes by four. In hanja, the character {{lang|zh|合}} ''hap'' means "coordinated", "joining", or "harmony"; {{lang|zh|氣}} ''[[Qi|ki]]'' literally means air, gas or breath but is used to mean spirit or so-called 'internal energy'; and {{lang|zh|道}} ''do'' means "way" or "art", yielding a literal translation of "joining-energy-way". It is most often translated as "the way of coordinating energy", "the way of coordinated power", or "the way of harmony". Although Japanese [[aikido]] and Korean hapkido share common technical origins, in time they have become separate and distinct from one another. They differ significantly in philosophy, range of responses, and manner of executing techniques. The fact that they share the same Japanese technical ancestry represented by their respective founders' practice of [[Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu]], and that they share the same Chinese characters, despite {{lang|zh|合}} being pronounced "ai" in Japanese and "hap" in Korean, has proved problematic in promoting hapkido internationally as a discipline with its own set of unique characteristics differing from those common to Japanese martial arts.{{Citation needed|date=May 2012}}
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