For pronunciation and definitions of <span class="searchmatch">止</span><span class="searchmatch">戈</span><span class="searchmatch">爲</span><span class="searchmatch">武</span> – see 止戈為武 (“to end a war is the true military accomplishment”). (This term is a variant traditional form of...
From the analysis of the character <span class="searchmatch">武</span> as being composed of <span class="searchmatch">止</span> (“to stop”) and <span class="searchmatch">戈</span> (“war”) in Zuozhuan: 潘黨曰：「君盍築<span class="searchmatch">武</span>軍，而收晉尸以為京觀，臣聞克敵，必示子孫，以無忘武功。」楚子曰：「非爾所知也，夫文...