Boxer

A surname.

Proper noun

  1. A surname.

Origin

Named Boxers by the West, since their official title was "The Fist of Righteous Harmony" (義和拳 /义和拳 (Yìhéquán)) and their symbol was a clenched fist.

Noun

  1. A Chinese anti-imperial and xenophobic rebel of the early 1900s.

Forms

Boxers

Derived

Boxerism Boxer Rebellion Boxer Uprising

From Wiktionary's contributor community, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.