wuxia

wuxia noun

1. a genre of Chinese fiction and film, concerning the adventures of sword-wielding chivalrous heroes

Word Origin for wuxia from Chinese: martial-chivalric Examples from the Web for wuxia Contemporary Examples of wuxia

Wuxia stories are typically about sorting out the consequences of some crime committed in the prior generation.

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