解码汉字96 "矛"，是从商代就开始使用的一种长柄有刃之直剌兵器。 96 "spear", is from the Shang Dynasty began to use a long-handled edge of the straight assassination weapons.

96  "矛"，是从商代就开始使用的一种长柄有刃之直剌兵器。   

矛   矛是象形字。象古兵器长矛之形。《说文》注：“酋矛也。建于兵车，长二丈。象形。”“古文矛从戈。”矛为一种长柄有刃之直剌兵器，有酋矛、夷矛之别。矛上装有尖锐之矛头，为进攻型兵器。盾为防御型兵器，矛与盾结合，合称矛盾，借指事物发展的对立统一。

矛 (名) spear

<维基百科>资料: 
矛是一种用于刺击的长柄武器，与铍（头端以茎接柄）、枪、槊是几乎相同的长柄兵器，但也有说法是矛与枪、铍有型制上的差异，例如矛与枪差异在头端样式，矛与铍差异在接柄的方式。
矛这个名称出现较早，自商代就开始使用，铍在东周出现，而枪、槊则到汉代才开始使用，隋唐之后矛多称为枪。中国的历史上以矛来称的长柄武器最长有到5、6米，以枪来称的长柄武器最常有作到8米的长度。       
《周礼·考工记》上记载，给步兵使用的矛称作酋矛，给战车兵使用的矛称作夷矛。



96 "spear", is from the Shang Dynasty began to use a long-handled edge of the straight assassination weapons.

Spear is a pictograph. Like the shape of ancient weapons spear. "Said the text" Note: "Emirates also built in the military car, long twenty feet. Pictograms." "Ancient spear from the Ge." Spear is a long-edged sword of straight assassination weapons, there are emperor, The spear is equipped with sharp spearheads for offensive weapons. Shield for the defensive weapons, spear and shield combination, collectively contradictory, by means of the unity of the development of things.
Spear


<Wikipedia> Information:
The spear is a long-handled weapon used for stabbing, with beryllium (head end with stems handle), guns, lance is almost the same long-handled weapons, but there are also saying spear and gun, beryllium type on the difference , Such as spear and gun difference in the head-end style, spear and beryllium difference in the handle of the way.
The name of the spear earlier, since the Shang Dynasty began to use, beryllium appeared in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and guns, lance to the Han Dynasty began to use, after the Sui and Tang Dynasties spear called guns. China's history to the spear of the long-handled weapons to the longest to 5,6 meters, the gun to call the long-handled weapons are most often made to 8 meters in length.

"Zhou Kao Gong Ji" on the record, to the infantry use of the spear called the emperor, to the use of the garrison spear called spear.