戈

See also: 弋 and 𠀋

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order (Taiwan)

Han character

戈 (Kangxi 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 Dictionary: 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

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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
• Eastern Min (BUC): kuŏ
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): ko / ko͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ko¹

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ¹ku

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gē
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄜ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ge
    • Wade–Giles: ko¹
    • Yale: gē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ge
    • Palladius: гэ (gɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɤ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • 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/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: kuŏ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰuo⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (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
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ¹ku
    • MiniDict: ku^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹ku
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ku⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: kwa

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
Baxter	kwa
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

(deprecated template usage) 戈

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

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

戈

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. pike (weapon)

Readings

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

Noun

Kanji in this term
戈
ほこ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

戈(ほこ) • (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

(deprecated template usage) 戈 (qua, quơ, quờ)

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