戈

See also: 弋 and 𠀋

戈 U+6208, 戈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6208 ← 戇 [U+6207] CJK Unified Ideographs 戉 → [U+6209]

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order (Taiwan)

Han character

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

1. Kangxi radical #62, ⼽.

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/戈
• 威, 咸, 歲, 戌, 烕, 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

simp. and trad.		戈

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 戈
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (戈) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
戕	*kaːl, *ʔsaːŋ, *zaŋ
戈	*koːl
划	*koːlʔ, *koːls, *ɡroːl

Pictogram (象形) ― a tool or weapon on a pole, the pole having developed into the long upper-left to lower-right diagonal stroke.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gē (ge¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄜ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwo¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): khô
• Min Dong (BUC): kuŏ
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): ko / ko͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ko¹

• Wu (Wiktionary): ku (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: gē
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄜ
    • Wade–Giles: ko¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ge
    • IPA ^(key): /kɤ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwo¹
    • Yale: gwō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwo¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: guo¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kʷɔː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khô
    • Hakka Romanization System: ko´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ko¹
    • IPA: /kʰo²⁴/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: kuŏ
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰuo⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ko
    • Tâi-lô: ko
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koy
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kɤ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ko³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /ko⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ko͘
    • Tâi-lô: koo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kof
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kɔ³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ko¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kho
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰo³³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: ku (T1)
    • IPA ^(key): /kv̩ʷ⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: /kuɑ/▼

Rime
Character	戈
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古禾切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuɑ/
Pan Wuyun	/kuɑ/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɑ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwa/
Li Rong	/kuɑ/
Wang Li	/kuɑ/
Bernard Karlgren	/kuɑ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guō

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kʷˤaj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*koːl/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	戈
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gē
Middle Chinese	‹ kwa ›
Old Chinese	/*kʷˁaj/
English	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	戈
Reading #	1/1
No.	3831
Phonetic component	戈
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	戈
Old Chinese	/*koːl/

Definitions

戈

1. (historical) dagger-axe (an ancient Chinese weapon similar to a halberd)
2. A surname​.

Compounds

• 不念荷戈
• 倒戈 (dǎogē)
• 倒戈卸甲
• 倒持干戈 (dàochí gāngē)
• 倒置干戈
• 倒載干戈／倒载干戈
• 入室操戈
• 兵戈 (bīnggē)
• 兵戈擾攘／兵戈扰攘
• 動干戈／动干戈
• 反戈
• 反戈一擊／反戈一击
• 同室操戈
• 大動干戈／大动干戈
• 大戈壁
• 天戈
• 干戈 (gāngē)
• 干戈載戢／干戈载戢
• 戈什
• 戈什哈
• 戈壁 (Gēbì)
• 戈比 (gēbǐ)

• 投戈
• 投戈講藝／投戈讲艺
• 投袂援戈
• 投袂荷戈
• 拋戈卸甲／抛戈卸甲
• 拋戈棄甲／抛戈弃甲
• 探戈 (tàngē)
• 探戈舞 (tàngēwǔ)
• 揮戈／挥戈
• 揮戈反日／挥戈反日
• 揮戈回日／挥戈回日
• 撝戈反日／㧑戈反日
• 操戈
• 操戈入室
• 擐甲持戈 (huànjiǎ chí gē)
• 擐甲揮戈／擐甲挥戈
• 擐甲操戈
• 杯酒戈矛
• 枕戈嘗膽／枕戈尝胆
• 枕戈坐甲
• 枕戈寢甲／枕戈寝甲

• 枕戈待敵／枕戈待敌
• 枕戈待旦 (zhěngēdàidàn)
• 枕戈汗馬／枕戈汗马
• 枕戈泣血
• 枕戈飲膽／枕戈饮胆
• 棄甲拋戈／弃甲抛戈
• 止戈
• 止戈散馬／止戈散马
• 止戈為武／止戈为武
• 止戈興仁／止戈兴仁
• 泣血枕戈
• 礪戈秣馬／砺戈秣马
• 解甲倒戈
• 解甲投戈
• 負戈／负戈
• 金戈鐵馬／金戈铁马
• 鐵馬金戈／铁马金戈
• 雕戈
• 韜戈偃武／韬戈偃武
• 韜戈卷甲／韬戈卷甲
• 魯陽揮戈／鲁阳挥戈

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Japanese

Kanji

戈

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. pike (weapon)

Readings

• Go-on: か (ka)
• Kan-on: か (ka)
• Kun: ほこ (hoko)

Noun

Kanji in this term
戈
ほこ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

戈 (hiragana ほこ, rōmaji hoko)

1. Alternative spelling of 矛

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

戈 (qua, quơ, quờ)

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