武

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[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 止 (“‘stop’”) + 戈 (“‘spear’”)

From the characters 戈 and 止. The character 戈 means spear. While the character 止 means “to stop” in modern times, it originally meant “foot” in Oracle script, according to the Japanese dictionary Kanjigen (漢字源). The character 武 may therefore have originally referred to “a man on foot with a spear”. Due to the modern meaning of 止, 武 is sometimes believed to denote “to stop a weapon” or “to stop violence” (止戈为武). This definition is mentioned in the 1985 film No Retreat, No Surrender.

[edit] Han character

武 (radical 77 止+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 一心卜中一 (MPYLM), four-corner 13140)

  1. military
  2. martial, warlike

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[edit] References

  • KangXi: page 575, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16273
  • Dae Jaweon: page 965, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1439, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+6B66

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

武 (Yale mou5)

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[edit] Kanji

武 (grade 5 kanji)

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[edit] Hanja

武 (hangeul 무, revised mu, McCune-Reischauer mu, Yale mu)

[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

武 (pinyin wǔ (wu3), Wade-Giles wu3)

[edit] Compounds

[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

武 (*miǒ)

[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

武 (vũ, võ)

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