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哥
哥
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Translingual
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Han character
哥 (radical 30 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一口弓口 (MRNR), four-corner 10621, composition ⿱可可)
Derived characters
References
- KangXi: page 190, character 8
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3641
- Dae Jaweon: page 409, character 25
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 624, character 19
- Unihan data for U+54E5
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
哥 | |
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Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (可) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 砢 | *ɡ·raːlʔ |
| 柯 | *kaːl |
| 菏 | *kaːl, *ɡaːl |
| 牁 | *kaːl |
| 滒 | *kaːl |
| 哥 | *kaːl |
| 歌 | *kaːl |
| 謌 | *kaːl |
| 鴚 | *kaːl |
| 哿 | *kaːlʔ |
| 舸 | *kaːlʔ |
| 笴 | *kaːlʔ, *kaːnʔ |
| 軻 | *kʰaːl, *kʰaːlʔ, *kʰaːls |
| 珂 | *kʰaːl |
| 可 | *kʰaːlʔ |
| 岢 | *kʰaːlʔ |
| 坷 | *kʰaːlʔ, *kʰaːls |
| 蚵 | *kʰaːls, *ɡaːl |
| 呵 | *qʰaːl, *qʰaːls |
| 訶 | *qʰaːl |
| 抲 | *qʰaːl |
| 荷 | *qʰaːls, *ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ |
| 何 | *ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ |
| 河 | *ɡaːl |
| 苛 | *ɡaːl |
| 魺 | *ɡaːl |
| 袔 | *ɡaːls |
| 阿 | *qaːl |
| 妸 | *qaːl, *qaːlʔ |
| 疴 | *qaːl, *kʰraːls |
| 鈳 | *qaːl |
| 娿 | *qaːl, *qaːlʔ |
| 痾 | *qaːl |
| 跒 | *kʰraːlʔ |
| 閜 | *qʰraːlʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kaːl) : phonetic 可 (OC *kʰaːlʔ) + phonetic 可 (OC *kʰaːlʔ).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): go1
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kô
- Min Dong (BUC): gŏ̤
- Min Nan (POJ): ko / koh
- Wu (Wiktionary): ku (T1)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄍㄜ
- Wade-Giles: ko1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ge
- IPA (key): /kɤ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing, erhua-ed) (哥兒／哥儿)
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄍㄜㄦ
- Wade-Giles: kêrh1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gel
- IPA (key): /kɤɻ⁵⁵/
- Homophones:
哥兒／哥儿
歌兒／歌儿
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: go1
- Yale: gō
- Cantonese Pinyin: go1
- IPA (key): /kɔː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kô
- Hakka Romanization System: go´
- Hagfa Pinyim: go1
- IPA: /ko²⁴/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: gŏ̤
- IPA (key): /ko⁵⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: ku (T1)
- IPA (key): /kv̩ʷ⁵³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 哥 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 歌 (94) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 古俄切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/kɑ/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/kɑ/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/kɑ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ka/ |
| Li Rong |
/kɑ/ |
| Wang Li |
/kɑ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/kɑ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
gē |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 哥 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 7437 |
| Phonetic component |
可 |
| Rime group |
歌 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
歌 |
| Old Chinese |
/*kaːl/ |
| Notes | 後作歌 |
Definitions
哥
- older brother; elder brother
- older male relative of the same generation
- (polite) term of address for a male person of the same age
- †Original form of 歌 (gē, “song”).
Compounds
Derived terms from 哥
Japanese
Kanji
哥
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
哥 • (ga) (hangeul 가, revised ga, McCune-Reischauer ka)
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Vietnamese
Han character
哥 (ca, kha)
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