Chinese polearm
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chinese-polearm-281-2307872
title:
Chinese polearm
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The three most common types of Chinese polearms are the ge (戈), qiang (槍), and ji (戟). They are translated into English as dagger-axe, spear, and halberd. Dagger-axes were originally a short slashing weapon with a 0.9–1.8 m long shaft, but around the 4th century BC a spearhead was added to the blade, and it became a halberd. The spear is also sometimes called a mao (矛), which is sometimes used to designate polearms with a wavy snake-like spearhead. There was another polearm weapon known as the p
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Polearm traditionally used by Chinese armies
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_polearm
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2024-04-17T23:11:11Z
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