戈, a pictographic character of a dagger-axe or halberd, serves as semantic component to form characters. 戈 mainly appears in ideographs e.g. 戊 戌 我 成 戍 或 伐 戕 戎 戒 戡 截 etc or phono-semantic compounds of left-right structure, e.g. 战, 戡, etc to express things related to weapons, war or killing. Continue reading “戈 dagger-axe or halberd”
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斤 an axe
斤 jīn, a pictographic character of an axe, serves as a semantic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component 斤 have to do with axe-alike tools or something related to the use of such tools, e.g. 斥, 斧, 斩, 断, 斯, 斫, 新, etc. Continue reading “斤 an axe”
王 axe
王 wáng, a pictographic character of an axe, serves as a phonetic component to form characters. Don’t mix it with the semantic component 玉. Continue reading “王 axe”