歌

See also 欨

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 哥 + phonetic 欠 (“blow”).

Note that the components on the left are 可, with two separate strokes (horizontal and vertical: 一 + 丨) on the upper right, rather than single turning stroke (折, zhé), as in 句. In fact, 口 is drawn between the 一 stroke and the 丨 stroke.

Han character

歌 (radical 76 欠+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一口弓人 (MRNO), X一口弓人 (XMRNO), four-corner 1768₂, composition ⿰哥欠)

1. song, lyrics
2. sing, chant
3. praise

References

• KangXi: page 571, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16167
• Dae Jaweon: page 959, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2147, character 12
• Unihan data for U+6B4C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

歌 (Yale go1)

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Japanese

Kanji

歌 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: か (ka)
• Kun: うたう (utau), うた (uta)

Compounds

• 歌曲
• 歌劇
• 歌詞
• 歌手
• 歌集
• 歌唱
• 歌舞伎 (かぶき, kabuki): kabuki
• 歌謡
• 歌会
• 歌枕
• 詩歌
• 賛歌, 讃歌
• 賛美歌

Noun

歌 (hiragana うた, romaji uta)

1. song
2. poetry

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Korean

Hanja

歌 (hangeul 가, revised ga, McCune-Reischauer ka, Yale ka)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

Hanzi

歌 (pinyin gē (ge1), Wade-Giles ko¹)

Compounds

• 副歌
• 歌手 gēshǒu - singer, vocalist
• 歌德 gēdé - Goethe
• 儿歌 érgē - nursery rhyme
• 民歌
• 山歌

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Vietnamese

Han character

歌 (ca, cà)