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See also: 弋 and 𠀋

Stroke order
Stroke order
(Taiwan)

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

  1. Kangxi radical #62, ⼽.
  • 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
simp. and trad.
 戈
A bronze dagger-axe.
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.

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/

戈

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

戈

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. pike (weapon)
Kanji in this term
戈
ほこ
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 戈 – see the following entry.
(This term, 戈, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

戈 (eumhun 창 과 (chang gwa))

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戈: Hán Nôm readings: qua, quơ, quờ

  1. chữ Nôm form of qua (“to cross; to go across”).

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