Keyword
dagger-axe
- spear
- lance
- halberd
- Frequency
- #2322
- Strokes
- 4
Readings
gē
Mnemonic
A spear pointing to the bottom-right
Stroke order
Used in characters
我I成to succeed民the people或maybe战war划profitable找to find戏play裁to cut截to cut off戴to put on戒to admonish伐cut down栽to plant戳to stab戮to kill戎military affairs戊fifth in order戟halberd羲an ancient emperor戛lance尧a legendary ancient emperor-sage畿territory around the capital戕to kill戋narrow戗contrary戢to restrain oneself戡kill戥a steelyard balance for weighing money戬carry to the utmost戠to gather戉halberd戤to infringe upon a trademark韱wild onions or leeks
Used in vocabulary
戈
dagger-axe; abbr. for 戈瑞 (gēruì); (Tw) abbr. for 戈雷 (gēléi)
戈壁
Gobi (desert)
戈尔
Gore (name); Al Gore (1948-), US vice-president 1993-2001 under Bill Clinton, subsequently environmental campaigner and Nobel Peace laureate
戈尔巴乔夫
Gorbachev; Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931–2022), last president of the Soviet Union 1991–1995
探戈
tango (dance) (loanword)
倒戈
to change sides in a war; turncoat
泰戈尔
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Indian poet and writer
戈培尔
Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), German Nazi leader and politician
伊戈尔
Igor
戈壁滩
Gobi desert
干戈
weapons of war; arms
戈兰高地
Golan Heights
戈比
kopeck (unit of money, one hundredth of ruble) (loanword)
大动干戈
lit. to go to war (idiom); fig. to make a big fuss over sth
萨拉戈萨
Zaragoza, Spain
兵戈
weapons; arms; fighting; war
班戈县
Baingoin, a county in Nagqu City 那曲市 (NàqǔShì), Tibet
金戈铁马
very powerful army
果戈里
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852), Russian author and dramatist
同室操戈
wielding the halberd within the household (idiom); internecine strife
化干戈为玉帛
lit. to exchange weapons of war for gifts of jade and silk (idiom); fig. to turn hostility into friendship
乔戈里峰
K2, aka Mt. Chogir, the world's second highest peak, located in the Karakoram Range 喀喇昆仑山脉 (KālǎkūnlúnShānmài)
坚戈
tenge (Kazakhstan currency) (loanword)
枕戈待旦
lit. to wait for dawn, one's head resting on a spear (idiom); fig. fully prepared and biding one's time before the battle