戟 (jǐ): halberd

Measure Word

一把戟 bǎ

Meanings

1 halberd
2 Ji — a Chinese pole weapon combining a spear and a battle-axe

Characters

戟

jǐ

halberd; combined spear and battle-axe

Examples

方天画戟是三国时期吕布的武器。

Fāng tiān huà jǐ shì Sānguó shíqī Lǚbù de wǔqì.

The halberd (fang tian hua ji) was the weapon of Lu Bu during the Three Kingdoms period.

戟是古代战场上常用的长柄武器。

Jǐ shì gǔdài zhànchǎng shàng chángyòng de cháng bǐng wǔqì.

The ji halberd was a commonly used pole weapon on ancient battlefields.

Tips

history

The 戟 (ji) was the signature weapon of Chinese antiquity, combining a spear point with a lateral blade. The famous 方天画戟 (fāngtiān huàjǐ — Painted Heavenly Halberd) is associated with the warrior Lu Bu (吕布) in Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Components

radical

戈 gē

dagger-axe; weapon

Right dagger-axe radical — the indexing radical, a pictograph of a long-handled blade with a hook. Anchors 戟 in the weapon family: 战 war, 戎 armed force, 戍 garrison, 戒 guard. Marks 戟 as a specific weapon — the halberd, a spear-axe hybrid carried by warriors and made famous by 吕布's painted ji in 三国 stories.

semantic

龺 gàn

sunrise above land (graphic top of 朝/戟)

Left compound shape — historically a stylized fusion of 十 (axe-head marker) above 早 / sun-and-tree, depicting the haft and the cross-piece of a halberd. The same graphic element tops 朝 morning. Here it carries the shaft-with-blade picture: a long pole with a sideways cutting edge mounted near the top, the defining silhouette of the ancient Chinese ji halberd.