干 gān
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 十 — ten, tenth
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
干戈
gāngē
weapons; war; armed conflict
Characters in this word
戈 gē
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 戈 — spear, lance, halberd
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 双方原本可能诉诸干戈，最后却通过第三方调解避免了冲突升级。 Shuāngfāng yuánběn kěnéng sùzhū gāngē, zuìhòu què tōngguò dì sān fāng tiáojiě bìmiǎn le chōngtū shēngjí. The two sides might originally have resorted to armed conflict, but in the end third-party mediation prevented the conflict from escalating.
- 为了这点小事就大动干戈，实在不值得。 Wèile zhè diǎn xiǎoshì jiù dà dòng gāngē, shízài bù zhídé. Making such a big fuss over this little matter really isn't worth it.
- 古诗里常常写到干戈四起，百姓流离失所。 Gǔshī lǐ chángcháng xiě dào gāngē sìqǐ, bǎixìng liúlí shīsuǒ. Ancient poems often describe war breaking out everywhere and the common people left homeless.