戈

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

See also: 弋 and 𠀋

Translingual

Stroke order

Taiwanese stroke order

Han character

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

1. halberd, spear, lance
2. Kangxi radical #62, ⼽ (“halberd”).

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

simp. and trad.		戈

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 戈
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bamboo 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

Ideogram (指事); 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): kho
• Min Nan (POJ): ko / ko͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • 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: kho
    • Hakka Romanization System: ko
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ko⁴
    • IPA: /kʰo⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ko
    • Tâi-lô: ko
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koy
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ko⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ko³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ko⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ko⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kɤ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ko͘
    • Tâi-lô: koo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kof
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kɔ³³/

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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	/*kʷˤaj/
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. (archaic) dagger-axe (an ancient Chinese weapon similar to a halberd)
2. A surname​.
3. used as a phonetic in foreign names

   戈登  ―  Gēdēng  ―  Gordon

   探戈  ―  Tàngē  ―  Tango

Compounds

• 倒戈 (dǎogē)
• 兵戈 (bīnggē)

• 干戈 (gāngē)
• 戈壁 (Gēbì)

• 探戈舞 (tàngēwǔ)

References

• “戈”, in MDBG English to Chinese dictionary ( Based on CC-CEDICT )^[1] (in Mandarin/English), accessed 2014-02-14
• “Entry #41016”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Kanji

戈

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. pike

Readings

• Goon: 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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