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Original meaning: kill
Simplified form of 戔. Combination of two weapons (戈), based on the original meaning "kill", now written as 殘. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Components
gē spear
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 戈 than it was in ancient scripts.