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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
In the Street Fighter series, either of the playable characters Ryu and Ken; by extension, several characters with similar attacks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: video-games
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noun
In fighting games generally, a playable character with the ability to shoot a horizontally traveling projectile, perform an uppercut and perform a horizontally travelling physical attack.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Topics: video-games
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History
Clipping of Shotokan, a style of karate. Originally mistakenly applied to the characters Ryu and Ken from Street Fighter II by translators working for Capcom USA, despite neither being practitioners of the style.
