戈

See also: 弋

Translingual

Stroke order

Taiwanese stroke order

Alternative forms

Note that there are two different stroke orders.

Etymology

		戈
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

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, composition ⿻弋丿)

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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		戈

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gē, hū, huī, xī (ge¹, hu¹, hui¹, xi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄜ, ㄏㄨ, ㄏㄨㄟ, ㄒㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwo¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): kho
• Min Nan (POJ): ko

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: gē
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄜ
    • Wade-Giles: ko¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ge
    • IPA ^(key): /kɤ⁵⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: hū
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨ
    • Wade-Giles: hu¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hu
    • IPA ^(key): /xu⁵⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: huī
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄟ
    • Wade-Giles: hui¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huei
    • IPA ^(key): /xu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Wade-Giles: hsih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwo¹
    • Yale: gwō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwo¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kʷɔː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kho
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /kʰo⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ko
    • Tâi-lô: ko
    • IPA (Taipei): /kə⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kə³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (戈, reconstructed)
Character (戈), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 戈 Division: I			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 古禾切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kuɑ/	/kuɑ/	/kuɑ/	/kuɑ/	/kwa/	/kuɑ/	/kuɑ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (戈, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
戈								gē								‹ kwa ›								/*kʷˤaj/								dagger-axe
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
戈					3831					戈					歌					3					戈					/*koːl/

Noun

戈

1. (archaic) dagger-axe (an ancient Chinese weapon similar to an halberd)

Proper noun

戈

1. A surname​.

Usage notes

Used for phonetic in foreign name

戈登 (Gordon)

探戈 (Tango)

See also

Dagger-axe on Wikipedia.en.Wikipedia:Dagger-axe

References

• "戈" (in Mandarin/English), MDBG English to Chinese dictionary ( Based on CC-CEDICT ). URL accessed on 2014-02-14.
• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Kanji

戈

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: か (ka)
• Kun: ほこ (hoko)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: qua, quơ, quờ

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