Radical 62

{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}

{{Infobox Kangxi radical

|62|uni=6208

|meaning=halberd, spear

|pny= gē

|bopo= ㄍㄜ

|gr= ge

|wade= ko1

|jyutping= gwo1

|yale= gwō

|poj= ko

|cn= 戈字旁 gēzìpáng

|onyomi= カ ka

|kunyomi= ほこ hoko

|jp= 戈構/ほこがまえ hokogamae
(Right) 戈旁/ほこづくり hokodzukuri
たすき tasuki
戈のほこ/かのほこ kanohoko

|hang= 창 chang

|hanja= 과 gwa

}}

Radical 62 or radical halberd ({{Lang|zh-Hant|戈部}}) meaning "halberd" or "spear" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 116 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

{{Lang|zh-Hans|戈}} is also the 70th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

File:戈-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character

File:戈-bronze.svg|Bronze script character

File:戈-seal.svg|Small seal script character

Derived characters

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! Strokes !! Characters

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| +0

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|戈}}
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| +1

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|戉}} {{Linktext|戊}} {{Linktext|戋}}SC (=戔)
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| +2

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|戌}} {{Linktext|戍}} {{Linktext|戎}} {{Linktext|戏}}SC (=戲) {{Linktext|成}}
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| +3

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|我}} {{Linktext|戒}} {{Linktext|戓}}
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| +4

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|戔}} {{Linktext|戕}} {{Linktext|或}} {{Linktext|戗}}SC (=戧)
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| +5

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|战}}SC (=戰)
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| +6

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|戙}}
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| +7

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|戚}} {{Linktext|戛}} {{Linktext|戜}} {{Linktext|戝}} (=賊)
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| +8

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|戞}} {{Linktext|戟}} {{Linktext|裁}}
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| +9

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|戠}} {{Linktext|戡}} {{Linktext|戢}} {{Linktext|戣}} {{Linktext|戤}} {{Linktext|戥}} {{Linktext|戦}}JP (=戰)
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| +10

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|戧}} {{Linktext|戨}} {{Linktext|戩}} {{Linktext|截}} {{Linktext|戫}} {{Linktext|戬}}SC/variant (=戩)
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| +11

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|戭}} {{Linktext|戮}} {{Linktext|戯}}JP (=戲) {{Linktext|戱}} (=戲) {{Linktext|戴}}
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| +12

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|戰}}
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| +13

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|戲}}
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| +14

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|戳}} {{Linktext|戴}}
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| +18

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|戵}}

Literature

  • {{cite book|last= Fazzioli |first= Edoardo |others= calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko |title= Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters |year= 1987 |publisher= Abbeville Press |location= New York |isbn= 0-89659-774-1 }}
  • {{cite book|last= Lunde |first= Ken |title= CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing |edition= Second |date= Jan 5, 2009 |publisher= O'Reilly Media |location= Sebastopol, Calif. |isbn= 978-0-596-51447-1 |chapter= Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets |chapter-url= http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596514471/cjkvip2e-appJ.pdf }}