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 edit

Stroke order

Stroke order (Taiwan)

Han character edit

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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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

simp. and trad.		戈

Wikipedia has articles on:

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

A bronze dagger-axe.

Glyph origin edit

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 edit

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 (Wugniu)
- (Northern): 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 Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khô
  - Hakka Romanization System: ko´
  - 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
- (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/
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.