Chinese Character Wiki
哥

gē

elder brother

Duplicate of 可, which has a similar sound.

Components
可 sound component

可  Sound component

kě, kè

  

able to

可 sound component

可  Sound component

kě, kè

  

able to

Evolution

哥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
哥 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
哥 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

哥  

gē

elder brother

Most common words with 哥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

哥

elder brother

哥哥

older brother

哥们

Brothers!

墨西哥

Mexico

大哥

eldest brother

Component uses

Sound component in 3 characters (3 verified)

歌 謌 𬤐

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 59.1062% of movies

374th most common character in movies

804th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+54E5

Shuowen

“哥，聲也。从二可。古文以為謌字。”


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