戈
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dagger-axe; abbr. for 戈瑞[ge1 rui4]; (Tw) abbr. for 戈雷[ge1 lei2]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 戈 itself
- Structure
- Single component 独体
- Traditional
- 戈
- Common rank
- #1,458
- Unicode
- U+6208
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Formation & memory
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How 戈 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
A spear pointing to the bottom-right
How to remember it
halberd · Heisig RSH #361
arrow — as a component also called: fiesta
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 戈
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 戈斯拉尔 | Goslar, Germany | |
| 戈德斯通 | Goldstone (name) | |
| 大动干戈 | lit. to go to war (idiom); fig. to make a big fuss over sth | |
| 戈兰高地 | Golan Heights | |
| 金戈铁马 | very powerful army | |
| 布拉戈维申斯克 | Blagoveshchensk, Russian city on the border with China, administrative center of Amur Obla… | |
| 迪戈·加西亚岛 | Diego Garcia tropical island and US military base in the Indian Ocean, main island of Chag… | |
| 阿耳戈斯 | Argus; in Greek mythology, a monster with 100 eyes, transformed into peacock's tail | |
| 加拉帕戈斯群岛 | Galapagos Islands | |
| 波德戈里察 | Podgorica, capital of Montenegro | |
| 伊戈尔斯 | Eagles (name) | |
| 查戈斯群岛 | Chagos Archipelago, coral archipelago in tropical Indian Ocean, with Diego Garcia 迪戈·加西亞島|… | |
| 萨拉戈萨 | Zaragoza, Spain | |
| 果戈里 | Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852), Russian author and dramatist | |
| 班戈县 | Baingoin, a county in Nagqu City 那曲市[Na4 qu3 Shi4], Tibet | |
| 戈氏金丝燕 | (bird species of China) Germain's swiftlet (Aerodramus germani) | |
| 伊戈尔 | Igor | |
| 戈尔巴乔夫 | Gorbachev; Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931–2022), last president of the Soviet Union 1… | |
| 弗拉门戈 | flamenco (loanword) | |
| 泰戈尔 | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Indian poet and writer |
Sound family
These characters use 戈 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 戈 sound part | spear, lance, halberd | |
| 栽 | to cultivate, to plant, to tend | |
| 畿 | imperial domain; area near the capital | |
| 戤 | to infringe upon a trademark |