哥
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Translingual
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Han character
哥 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一口弓口 (MRNR), four-corner 10621, composition ⿱⿹丅口可(GHTV) or ⿱可可(JK))
References
- KangXi: page 190, character 8
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3641
- Dae Jaweon: page 409, character 25
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 624, character 19
- Unihan data for U+54E5
Chinese
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Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (可) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
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| 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 |
Stacked form of 可 (OC *kʰaːlʔ).
Etymology
- “elder brother”
- This sense is attested in Medieval Chinese, and became popular during the Tang dynasty, gradually displacing 兄 (MC hˠwiæŋ).
- It is a clipping of 阿哥 (MC ʔɑ kɑ), a borrowing from Xianbei *aqa (“elder brother”) (Mei, 2015). Compare Proto-Mongolic *aka, whence also Mongolian ᠠᠬᠠ (aq'a, “elder brother”). Related to 阿干 (MC ʔɑ kɑn), which is the definite form of the same Xianbei word (Mei, 2015).
Pronunciation
Definitions
哥
- older brother; elder brother
- older male relative of the same generation
- (honorific) term of address for a male person of the same age or older
- Short for 哥斯達黎加／哥斯达黎加 (Gēsīdálíjiā, “Costa Rica”).
- † Original form of 歌 (gē, “to sing; song”).
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 哥哥 (“elder brother”) [map]
Compounds
Derived terms from 哥
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