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戈

戈

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

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.
 戈

Pronunciation

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
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/

Noun

戈

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

Proper noun

戈

  1. A surname​.

Usage notes

Also used as a phonetic in foreign names.

戈登  ―  Gēdēng  ―  Gordon
探戈  ―  Tàngē  ―  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

戈

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. pike

Readings

Noun

Kanji in this term
戈
ほこ
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

戈 ‎(hiragana ほこ, romaji hoko)

  1. Alternative spelling of 矛

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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Etymology

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.

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