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哥

gē

HSK 2 Character

What 哥 means

1. elder brother

Example sentences

• 我有个哥哥。
  I have an older brother.
• 你哥哥是谁？
  Who is your brother?
• 她爱慕她哥哥。
  Tā àimù tā gēge.
  She adores her older brother.
• 他有三个哥哥。
  He has three brothers.
• 我哥哥会开车。
  My brother can drive a car.
• 丰有两个哥哥。
  Yutaka has two elder brothers.

Words starting with 哥

• 哥哥gē geolder brother
• 哥们gē men(colloquial) dude; buddy; bro
• 哥们儿gē men rerhua form of 哥们
• 哥伦比亚Gē lún bǐ yàColombia (country in South America); Columbia…
• 哥伦布Gē lún bùCristóbal Colón or Christopher Columbus (1451-1506); Columbus, capital of Ohio
• 哥俩gē liǎ(colloquial) two brothers; two close male friends
• 哥本哈根Gē běn hā gēnCopenhagen or København, capital of Denmark
• 哥伦比亚大学Gē lún bǐ yà Dà xuéColumbia University
• 哥特式gē tè shìGothic (style in architecture, art, literature etc)
• 哥特gē tè(loanword) Gothic subculture or aesthetic
• 哥儿gē rbrothers; boys
• 哥大Gē DàColumbia University (abbr.)
• 哥德Gē dé(Taiwan) Gothic; (Taiwan) Goethe (1749–1832), German poet and playwright
• 哥利亚Gē lì yàGoliath
• 哥德式gē dé shì(Taiwan) Gothic style
• 哥斯拉Gē sī lāGodzilla
• 哥特人Gē tè rénGoth (member of a historical East Germanic people)
• 哥老会Gē lǎo huìlate-Qing underground resistance movement against the Qing dynasty
• 哥布林gē bù língoblin (loanword)
• 哥林多Gē lín duō(Protestantism) Corinth, city in Greece
• 哥林多前书Gē lín duō qián shūFirst epistle of St Paul to the Corinthians
• 哥林多后书Gē lín duō Hòu shūSecond Epistle of St Paul to the Corinthians
• 哥白尼Gē bái níMikolaj Kopernik or Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer, mathematician and…
• 哥萨克Gē sà kèCossack (people)

Words containing 哥

• 大哥dà gēeldest brother; big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself)…
• 帅哥shuài gēhandsome guy; lady-killer; handsome (form of address)
• 墨西哥Mò xī gēMexico
• 二哥èr gēsecond brother
• 表哥biǎo gēolder male cousin through a female relative
• 温哥华Wēn gē huáVancouver (city in Canada)
• 芝加哥Zhī jiā gēChicago, USA
• 的哥dī gēmale taxi driver; cabbie (slang)
• 老哥lǎo gēform of address for a (slightly) older man (esp. among males)
• 阿哥ā gē(familiar) elder brother
• 摩洛哥Mó luò gēMorocco
• 大哥大dà gē dàcell phone (bulky, early-model one); brick phone; mob boss
• 老大哥lǎo dà gēbig brother
• 伟哥Wěi gēViagra (male impotence drug)
• 摩纳哥Mó nà gēMonaco
• 斯德哥尔摩Sī dé gē ěr móStockholm, capital of Sweden
• 圣地亚哥Shèng dì yà gēSantiago, capital of Chile; San Diego, California
• 八哥bā ge(bird species of China) crested myna (Acridotheres cristatellus)
• 堂哥táng gēolder male patrilineal cousin
• 格拉斯哥Gé lā sī gēGlasgow, Scotland
• 芝加哥大学Zhī jiā gē Dà xuéUniversity of Chicago
• 墨西哥城Mò xī gē chéngMexico City, capital of Mexico
• 安哥拉Ān gē lāAngola
• 多哥Duō gēTogo

Characters built on 可

These share the phonetic component 可 (kě), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 何héwhat; how; why
• 河hériver; (bound form) the Yellow River; (bound form) the Milky Way
• 呵hē(bound form) to scold; to expel breath; (onomatopoeia) laughter (usu. reduplicated)
• 柯kē(literary) branch; stem; stalk; (literary) ax handle
• 苛kēsevere; exacting
• 珂kējade-like stone
• 诃hēto scold
• 钶kēcolumbium

Characters that look like 哥

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 资zīresources; capital; to provide
• 带dàiband; belt; girdle
• 帝dì(bound form) emperor; sovereign; supreme deity
• 晋jìnto move forward; to promote; to advance
• 莠yǒuSetaria viridis; vicious
• 曷héwhy; how; when

Sounds the same

Read gē, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 歌song; (bound form) to sing
• 胳armpit
• 割to cut; to cut apart
• 鸽pigeon; dove
• 搁to place; to put aside; to shelve
• 疙used in 疙瘩
• 戈dagger-axe; abbr. for 戈瑞; (Taiwan) abbr. for 戈雷
• 咯(phonetic)
• 格used in 格登; used in 格格
• 纥knot
• 仡used in 仡佬族; Taiwan pr. qì
• 圪(phonetic)