(gē) - older brother in Mandarin
gēTraditional: 哥
Translation
older brother
Word origin
Written with two 可 (kě) elements stacked, the character was borrowed for the kinship term for an elder brother, also widely used as a friendly term of address.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 可 (kě) doubled, phonetic
Stroke order
哥
Examples
。
My older brother is three years older than me.
，？
Brother, can you give me a hand?
。
He calls that boy big brother.
京。
My older brother works in Beijing.
隔壁篮。
The lad next door is very good at basketball.
哥 (gē) means older brother, and is also a common friendly way to address a slightly older man. It often appears doubled as 哥哥.
Where this fits
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 哥.
Used in
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