Amazing Chinese Characters (628) To Defeat - 伐

The shell bone script of character To Defeat is

The left is character People (Post 37), the right is character Dagger-axe (Post 80). A soldier holds a dagger-axe to battle field.

The bronze script of character To Defeat is 

Similar to shell bone script, the left is Person, the right is dagger-axe.

The big seal script of character To Defeat is

Similar to big seal script.

The small seal script of character To Defeat is

The left is Radical People, the right is character Dagger-axe.

The Pinyin of the character is Fa2.

The character original means To Defeat, which is still its main meaning. But it has another meaning: Lumbering.