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.

← 61 Radical 62 (U+2F3D) 63 →
(U+6208) "halberd, spear"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:
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.

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

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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters
+0
+1 SC (=戔)
+2 SC (=戲)
+3
+4 SC (=戧)
+5 SC (=戰)
+6
+7 (=賊)
+8
+9 JP (=戰)
+10 SC/variant (=戩)
+11 JP (=戲) (=戲)
+12
+13
+14
+18

Literature

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  • 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.
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