gē
spear
Pictograph of a weapon with a long shaft and horizontal blade.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 戈
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
dagger-axe | ||
tango (dance) (loanword) | ||
Gobi (desert) | ||
Gorbachev | ||
Gore (name) |
Component uses
Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kʷˤaj | kwa | gē | dagger-axe |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 7.4323% of movies
1575th most common character in movies
1695th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 4 |
Unicode | U+6208 |
Shuowen | “戈,平頭也。从弋,一横之,象形。” |
Sources
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