(gē) - song in Mandarin
gēTraditional: 歌
Translation
song
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound with 欠 (qiàn, to gape, the open mouth radical) for meaning and 哥 (gē, elder brother) for sound, depicting singing with an open mouth.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 欠 (qiàn, to gape) + 哥 (gē, phonetic)
Stroke order
歌
Examples
。
This song is very nice to listen to.
。
She can sing many English songs.
。
Everyone sang a song together.
旋。
I like the melody of this song.
乡。
He wrote a song about his hometown.
歌 (gē) means song, and is most often used in compounds such as 歌曲 (song) and 唱歌 (to sing). The standard measure word is 首.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 歌.
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