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

Stroke order

Stroke order (Taiwan)

Han character

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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

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

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.		戈

Wikipedia has articles on:

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

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) ― an ancient weapon with a single blade. The vertical handle developed into the long upper-left to lower-right diagonal stroke.

See also 我, which is the same weapon but with three blades instead of one, making it similar to a trident.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): gē (ge¹)

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

(Meixian, Guangdong): ko¹
Northern Min (KCR): kuá
Eastern Min (BUC): kuŏ
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): ko / ko͘

(Teochew, Peng'im): ko¹
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹ku
Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): go¹

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 Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khô
  - Hakka Romanization System: ko^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ko¹
  - Sinological IPA: /kʰo²⁴/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: ko¹
  - Sinological IPA: /kʰo⁴⁴/
Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: kuá
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰua⁵⁴/
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
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹ku
  - MiniDict: ku^平
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹ku
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ku⁵³/
Xiang
- (Changsha)
  - Wiktionary: go¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ko³³/

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/
Bernhard 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

戈

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

Compounds

Japanese

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

戈

Wikipedia ^ja

Kanji

戈

(Hyōgai kanji)

pike (weapon)

Readings

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

Definitions

Kanji in this term
戈
ほこ Hyōgai
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, 戟

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

Korean

Hanja

戈 (eumhun 창 과 (chang gwa))

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Vietnamese

Han character

戈: Hán Nôm readings: qua, quơ, quờ

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Compounds

𣦆戈 (trải qua)