U+6208 "戈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
戈
U+6208 "戈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a type of ancient dagger-axe, a weapon used in early Chinese warfare, and also serves as a radical in the Kangxi system of character classification. As a pictograph, its form is derived from a depiction of this weapon, and it appears in various compound characters where it often conveys meanings related to warfare, weapons, or aggressive action. In modern Chinese, it is used both as a standalone character and as a component, with its pronunciation typically being "gē" in Mandarin.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6208 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 戈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 戈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x88 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6208 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006208 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6208 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A4E0 |
| kCCCII | 213F5D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4541 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4541 |
| kCangjie | I |
| kCantonese | gwo1 |
| kCihaiT | 550.204 |
| kCowles | 2095 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0752.050 |
| kDefinition | halberd, spear, lance; rad. 62 |
| kEACC | 213F5D |
| kFanqie | 古禾 |
| kFenn | 331G |
| kFennIndex | 250.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5300.0 |
| kGB0 | 2474 |
| kGB1 | 2474 |
| kGSR | 0007a |
| kHangul | 과:0N |
| kHanYu | 21397.010 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21397.010:gē |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⼽[U+2F3D]:21397.010 |
| kHKGlyph | 1452 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0752.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21397.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0411.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-386A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A4E0 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5879 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D3E3 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4D7C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4541 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5631 |
| kJapanese | カ ほこ ほこづくり かのほこ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:104 |
| kJapaneseKun | HOKO |
| kJapaneseOn | KA |
| kJis0 | 5689 |
| kKangXi | 0411.010 |
| kKarlgren | 410 |
| kKorean | KWA |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2047 |
| kMandarin | gē |
| kMatthews | 3358 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1409 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ012056 |
| kMorohashi | 11530 |
| kNelson | 1794 |
| kPhonetic | 743 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4930+62.4.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 62.0 |
| kSBGY | 161.38 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 234.11 206.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | gē粵gwo1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2047 |
| kTang | *guɑ |
| kTGHZ2013 | 109.160:gē |
| kTotalStrokes | 4 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | qua |
| kXerox | 260:165 |
| kXHC1983 | 0369.040:gē |