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Translingual

Stroke order
Taiwanese
stroke order

Han character

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

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

Derived terms

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (95)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
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
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 3831
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*koːl/

Noun

  1. (archaic) dagger-axe (an ancient Chinese weapon similar to a halberd)

Proper noun

  1. A surname.

Usage notes

Also used as a phonetic in foreign names.

   dēng   Gordon
   Tàn   Tango

See also

Dagger-axe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

  • “戈”, in MDBG English to Chinese dictionary ( Based on CC-CEDICT ) (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.

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. pike

Readings

Noun

Kanji in this term
ほこ
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

(hiragana ほこ, romaji hoko)

  1. Alternative spelling of

Korean

Hanja

(gwa) (hangeul , revised gwa, McCune-Reischauer kwa, Yale kwa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(qua, quơ, quờ)

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