武
Meanings
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- 1.martial
- 2.military
- 1.surname Wu
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Wiktionary
- 1.military (related to warfare, fighting)
- 2.martial arts; wushu
- 3.valiant; brave; courageous
- 4.soldier; warrior
- 5.footstep; footprint
- 6.Classifier for half steps.
- 7.to inherit
- 8.a surname
- 9.only used in 鸚鵡／鹦鹉 (yīngwǔ)
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 戈 (“dagger-axe”) + 止 (“foot; to walk; to stop”) – army going on an expedition. In the character 武, the 戈 component is written above the 止 component. The graphical origin of 武 as “to stop violence” — the ultimate state of just warfare — is traditionally attributed to King Zhuang of Chu [597 BCE]: Linguistically, this was likely a misinterpretation, as 止 always means “to walk” (趾) when used as a radical, compare 步 (bù), 歷 /历 (lì) and 歧 (qí). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-maq (“war, army, soldier”). Cognate with Tibetan དམག (dmag, “army”), Burmese မက် (mak) (as in ရဲမက် (rai:mak, “soldier”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007; Sagart, 2017d).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
他武裝到牙齒。
He is armed to the teeth.
他們用槍武裝自己。
They armed themselves with guns.
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Derived terms
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