<p>Tell me, please, how do 我's radicals 手 and 戈 create the meaning of 我  (ie: I)? 
  I know that 戈's pictogram (象形) means a rake-like tool or weapon, borrowed for sound to mean "me" (note 'Oracle bone script')." But then how did "rake-like tool or weapon" shift semantically to mean "I"?</p>

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Glyph origin of 我 - How did 我's radicals 手 and 戈 create the meaning of 我?
# Glyph origin of 我 - How did 我's radicals 手 and 戈 create the meaning of 我?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-11-12)

Tell me, please, how do 我's radicals 手 and 戈 create the meaning of 我 (ie: I)?
I know that 戈's pictogram (象形) means a rake-like tool or weapon, borrowed for sound to mean "me" (note 'Oracle bone script')." But then how did "rake-like tool or weapon" shift semantically to mean "I"?

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