Traditional: 哥

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Translation

older brother (bound morpheme)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 哥

Examples

My older brother is three years older than me.

Older brother, where are you?

chéng

His older brother is an engineer.

My second elder brother is three years older than me.

My eldest brother is already married.

哥 (gē) means older brother and is almost always reduplicated as 哥哥 (gē ge), the everyday word for older brother.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 哥.

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This word is part of lesson 105.