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)

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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		歌

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gē (ge¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄜ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): go¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): kô
• Min Nan (POJ): koa / ko
• Wu (WT Romanisation): ku (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: gē
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄜ
    • Wade-Giles: ko¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ge
    • IPA ^(key): /kɤ⁵⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing, erhua-ed) (歌兒／歌儿)
    • Pinyin: gēr
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄜㄦ
    • Wade-Giles: kêrh¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gel
    • IPA ^(key): /kɤɻ⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 歌兒/歌儿 哥兒/哥儿

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: go¹
    • Yale: gō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: go¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kɔː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kô
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /ko²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koa / ko
    • Tâi-lô: kua / ko
    • IPA (Taipei): /kua⁴⁴/, /kə⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kua³⁴/, /kə³⁴/
  • Note: ko is literary.
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: ku (T1)
    • IPA ^(key): /kɯ⁵³/

Noun

歌 (classifier 首, 支)

1. song, tune

Compounds

Derived terms

• 兒歌／儿歌

• 副歌

• 山歌

• 歌手

• 民歌

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Japanese

Kanji

歌

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: か (ka)
• Kan’on: か (ka)
• Kun: うたう (utau), うた (uta)

Compounds

Derived terms

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

Synonyms

• 唄

Kanji in this term

歌

うた Grade: 2

kun'yomi

Noun

歌 (hiragana うた, romaji uta)

1. song
2. poetry

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

歌 (ca, cà, cao)

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