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)

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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Hakka

Hanzi

戈 (POJ kho, Guangdong k'o¹; ko¹ [Dongguan], Hagfa Pinyim ko1, go1)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

戈

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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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Mandarin

Hanzi

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

Noun

戈 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin gē)

1. Dagger-axe ( ancient weapon ), spear, lance, halberd

Proper noun

戈 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin gē)

1. a Chinese surname

Usage notes

Used for phonetic in foreign name

戈登 (Gordon)

探戈 (Tango)

References

• "戈" (in Mandarin/English), MDBG English to Chinese dictionary ( Based on CC-CEDICT ). URL accessed on 2014-02-14.

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Middle Chinese

Han character

戈 (*guɑ)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

戈 (TLPA ko (ko¹), Guangdong go¹)

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Vietnamese

Han character

戈 (qua, quơ, quờ)