More martial arts philosophy

As I've posted on before, you never know what rare nuggets of wisdom you're going to run across in reading martial arts training material (e.g., the first response to pain must be anger, not submission). Here's one I just ran across surfing around:

As a practitioner of combative martial arts, one must forever strive to reach the goal of, "one strike, certain death."

I wonder what the Chinese pictograph symbol for that is?