They were stading in front of the entry, each had a dagger, holding it in two hands. They had to guard it against any intruders. The two dwarfs want nobody in the jelly cakes factory.

Chieh is composed of 廾 kung two hands grasping 戈 ko a spear, as if in readiness to meet an attack. The former was its old radical, but it was classed by the editors of K'ang Hsi's standard dictionary under ko.