Radical 62

Radical 62 or radical halberd (戈部) meaning "halberd" or "spear" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

戈
Radical 62 (U+2F3D)
戈 (U+6208) "halberd, spear"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	gē
Bopomofo:	ㄍㄜ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	ge
Wade–Giles:	ko1
Cantonese Yale:	gwō
Jyutping:	gwo1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	ko
Japanese Kana:	カ ka (on'yomi) ほこ hoko (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	과 gwa
Names
Chinese name(s):	戈字旁 gēzìpáng
Japanese name(s):	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
Hangul:	창 chang
Stroke order animation

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

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

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	戈
+1	戉 戊 戋SC (=戔)
+2	戌 戍 戎 戏SC (=戲) 成
+3	我 戒 戓
+4	戔 戕 或 戗SC (=戧)
+5	战SC (=戰)
+6	戙
+7	戚 戛 戜 戝 (=賊)
+8	戞 戟 裁
+9	戠 戡 戢 戣 戤 戥 戦JP (=戰)
+10	戧 戨 戩 截 戫 戬SC/variant (=戩)
+11	戭 戮 戯JP (=戲) 戱 (=戲) 戴
+12	戰
+13	戲
+14	戳 戴
+18	戵

Literature

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+6208