gē
elder brother
Duplicate of 可, which has a similar sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 哥
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
elder brother | ||
older brother | ||
Brothers! | ||
Mexico | ||
eldest brother |
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。” |
Sources
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