戈

See also 弋

Translingual

Stroke order

Taiwanese stroke order

Alternative forms

Note that there are two different stroke orders.

Etymology

Ideogram (指事); a tool or weapon on a pole, the pole having developed into the long upper-left to lower-right diagonal stroke.

Han character

戈 (radical 62 戈+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 戈 (I), four-corner 5300₀)

1. halberd, spear, lance
2. radical 62

Derived terms

• See: Index:Chinese radical/戈
• 威, 咸, 歲, 烕 (via 戌), 武

References

• KangXi: page 411, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11530
• Dae Jaweon: page 752, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1397, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6208

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Cantonese

Hanzi

戈 (Yale gwo1)

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Japanese

Kanji

戈

Readings

• On: か (ka)
• Kun: ほこ (hoko)

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Korean

Hanja

戈 (hangeul 과, revised gwa, McCune-Reischauer kwa, Yale kwa)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

戈 (pinyin gē (ge1), hū (hu1), huī (hui1), xī (xi1), Wade-Giles ko¹, hu¹, hui¹, hsi¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

戈 (qua, quơ, quờ)