| 武 |
wǔ shì dāo | katana |
| 武 |
Wǔ | surname Wu |
| 武 |
wǔ | martial / military |
| 武 |
wǔ shì | warrior / samurai |
| 士 |
Shì | surname Shi |
| 士 |
shì | member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker |
| 刀 |
Dāo | surname Dao |
| 刀 |
dāo | knife; blade; single-edged sword; cutlass (CL:把) / (slang) (loanword) dollar / classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper) / classifier for knife cuts or stabs / (Internet slang) to bargain; to ask for a small discount (esp. on second-hand marketplaces) / (Internet slang) to knife (sb) (often used hyperbolically, as in 想刀他 "I could kill him!") |