戈

See also: 弋 and 𠀋

戈	U+6208, 戈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6208

← 戇
[U+6207]

CJK Unified Ideographs

戉 →
[U+6209]

⼽	U+2F3D, ⼽ KANGXI RADICAL HALBERD

← ⼼
[U+2F3C]

Kangxi Radicals

⼾ →
[U+2F3E]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order

Stroke order (Taiwan)

Han character[edit]

See images of
Radical 62 戈

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

Kangxi radical #62, ⼽.

Derived characters[edit]

Appendix:Chinese radical/戈
伐, 𠯫, 𪥅, 𡛏, 𪦷, 找, 㳀, 𫼉, 𣏾, 𣧌, 牫, 䄀, 𭻀, 䂝, 䇅, 𥾮, 𦐂, 聀, 𦣣, 𦨜, 𧥾, 𮙦, 𧺱, 𨈟, 𫏳, 䣬, 鈛(𫓨), 𩚧, 𩢅, 𩫅, 𩰭, 䰹, 𩿙, 䴰, 𪗠
𭍡, 𭨜, 𠶶, 𭝞, 𪝠, 𧶒, 𭬐, 𡃣, 𧔼, 𩯷, 划, 𭆧, 𨟶, 𨾓, 𩾷, 𢌵, 𫹳, 𣏩, 𤰭, 𬷁, 𧕹, 𦬗, 𪜋, 䇝, 𩂅, 㡲, 𨳮, 𩰎, 𣇈, 幾, 畿, 簚, 羲
威, 咸, 歲, 戌, 烕, 武

References[edit]

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

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.		戈

Wikipedia has articles on:

戈 (武器) (Written Standard Chinese^?)
dagger-axe (English)

Wikipedia has an article on:

戈姓

Glyph origin[edit]

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[edit]

Mandarin
(Pinyin): gē (ge¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄜ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gwo¹
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): khô

(Meixian, Guangdong): ko¹
Min Bei (KCR): kuá
Min Dong (BUC): kuŏ
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): ko / ko͘

(Teochew, Peng'im): ko¹
Wu (Wiktionary): ku (T1)
Xiang (Wiktionary): go¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: gē
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄜ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ge
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ge
  - Wade–Giles: ko¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɤ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: gwo¹
  - Yale: gwō
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gwo¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: guo¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɔː⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khô
  - Hakka Romanization System: ko´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ko¹
  - Sinological IPA: /kʰo²⁴/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: ko¹
  - Sinological IPA: /kʰo⁴⁴/
Min Bei
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: kuá
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰua⁵⁴/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: kuŏ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰuo⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General 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
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰo³³/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: ku (T1)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kv̩ʷ⁵³/
Xiang
- (Changsha)
  - Wiktionary: go¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ko³³/

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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwo¹

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[edit]

戈

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

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

戈

Wikipedia ^ja

Kanji[edit]

戈

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

pike (weapon)

Readings[edit]

Go-on: か (ka)^{←くわ (kwa, historical)}
Kan-on: か (ka)^{←くわ (kwa, historical)}
Kun: ほこ (hoko)

Definitions[edit]

Kanji in this term
戈
ほこ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 戈 – see the following entry.

【矛ほこ】S

[noun] a Chinese spear; a lance; a halberd

Alternative spellings
鉾, 鋒, 戈, 戟

(This term, 戈, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

戈 (eumhun 창 과 (chang gwa))

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