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U+6208, 戈
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6208

CJK Unified Ideographs
U+2F3D, ⼽
KANGXI RADICAL HALBERD

Kangxi Radicals

Translingual

Stroke order
Stroke order
(Taiwan)

Han character

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

  1. Kangxi radical #62, .

Derived characters

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.
Wikipedia has articles on:
A bronze dagger-axe.

Glyph origin

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



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (95)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
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
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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. * 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
Reading # 1/1
No. 3831
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*koːl/

Definitions

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

Compounds

Japanese

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Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. pike (weapon)

Readings

  • Go-on: (ka)くわ (kwa, historical)
  • Kan-on: (ka)くわ (kwa, historical)
  • Kun: ほこ (hoko)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
ほこ
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
ほこS
a Chinese spear; a lance; a halberd
Alternative spellings
, ,
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun (chang gwa))

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: qua, quơ, quờ

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Compounds