戓

See also: 或

戓 U+6213, 戓 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6213 ← 戒 [U+6212] CJK Unified Ideographs 戔 → [U+6214]

Translingual

Han character

戓 (Kangxi radical 62, 戈+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 戈口 (IR) or 難戈口 (XIR), composition ⿹戈口)

Derived characters

• 𪸬 𧚑

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 412, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11549
• Dae Jaweon: page 754, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1401, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6213

Chinese

simp. and trad.		戓

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 戓
Shang	Warring States
Oracle bone script	Chu slip and silk script

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 戈 (“dagger-axe (used to defend the territory)”) + 囗 (“city wall”), “territory”.

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 戓 – see 或 (“or; either ... or ...; perhaps; maybe; etc.”). (This character is an ancient form of 或).

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gē (ge¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄜ

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• 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/

Definitions

戓

1. ^‡ A place name. (clarification of this definition is needed)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C04038

Japanese

Kanji

戓

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): か (ka)