重文轻武 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 重文輕武 zhòngwénqīngwǔ ㄓㄨㄥˋ ㄨㄣˊ ㄑㄧㄥ ㄨˇ to value letters and belittle arms (idiom) to stress civil matters and neglect the military to prefer the pen to the sword Character by character 重(zhòng)heavy 文(wén)surname Wen 轻(qīng)light 武(wǔ)surname Wu A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0