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歌
歌
See also: 欨
Translingual
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Han character
歌 (radical 76 欠+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一口弓人 (MRNO) or 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
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
歌 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 歌
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| Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (可) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 砢 | *ɡ·raːlʔ |
| 柯 | *kaːl |
| 菏 | *kaːl, *ɡaːl |
| 牁 | *kaːl |
| 滒 | *kaːl |
| 哥 | *kaːl |
| 歌 | *kaːl |
| 謌 | *kaːl |
| 鴚 | *kaːl |
| 哿 | *kaːlʔ |
| 舸 | *kaːlʔ |
| 笴 | *kaːlʔ, *kaːnʔ |
| 軻 | *kʰaːl, *kʰaːlʔ, *kʰaːls |
| 珂 | *kʰaːl |
| 可 | *kʰaːlʔ |
| 岢 | *kʰaːlʔ |
| 坷 | *kʰaːlʔ, *kʰaːls |
| 蚵 | *kʰaːls, *ɡaːl |
| 呵 | *qʰaːl, *qʰaːls |
| 訶 | *qʰaːl |
| 抲 | *qʰaːl |
| 荷 | *qʰaːls, *ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ |
| 何 | *ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ |
| 河 | *ɡaːl |
| 苛 | *ɡaːl |
| 魺 | *ɡaːl |
| 袔 | *ɡaːls |
| 阿 | *qaːl |
| 妸 | *qaːl, *qaːlʔ |
| 疴 | *qaːl, *kʰraːls |
| 鈳 | *qaːl |
| 娿 | *qaːl, *qaːlʔ |
| 痾 | *qaːl |
| 跒 | *kʰraːlʔ |
| 閜 | *qʰraːlʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kaːl) : phonetic 哥 (OC *kaːl) + semantic 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, as in 句. In fact, 口 is drawn between the 一 stroke and the 丨 stroke.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): go1
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kô
- Min Dong (BUC): gŏ
- Min Nan
- Wu (Wiktionary): ku (T1)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄍㄜ
- Wade-Giles: ko1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ge
- IPA (key): /kɤ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing, erhua-ed) (歌兒／歌儿)
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄍㄜㄦ
- Wade-Giles: kêrh1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gel
- IPA (key): /kɤɻ⁵⁵/
- Homophones:
哥兒／哥儿
歌兒／歌儿
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: go1
- Yale: gō
- Cantonese Pinyin: go1
- IPA (key): /kɔː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kô
- Hakka Romanization System: go´
- Hagfa Pinyim: go1
- IPA: /ko²⁴/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: gŏ
- IPA (key): /ku⁵⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koa / ko
- Tâi-lô: kua / ko
- Phofsit Daibuun: koaf, koy
- IPA (Xiamen): /kua⁴⁴/, /kɤ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kua³³/, /kɤ³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kua⁴⁴/, /kɤ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /kua⁴⁴/, /ko⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kua⁴⁴/, /kɤ⁴⁴/
- Note: koa - vernacular; ko - literary.
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: gua1 / go1
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kua / ko
- IPA (key): /kua³³/, /ko³³/
- Note: gua1 - vernacular; go1 - literary.
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: ku (T1)
- IPA (key): /kv̩ʷ⁵³/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 歌 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /kɤ⁵⁵/ |
| Harbin | /kɤ⁴⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /kɤ²¹/ | |
| Jinan | /kə²¹³/ | |
| Qingdao |
/kə²¹³/ 新 /kuə²¹³/ 老 |
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| Zhengzhou | /kɤ²⁴/ | |
| Xi'an | /kɤ²¹/ | |
| Xining | /kɔ⁴⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /kə⁴⁴/ | |
| Lanzhou | /kə³¹/ | |
| Ürümqi | /kɤ⁴⁴/ | |
| Wuhan | /kuo⁵⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /ko⁵⁵/ | |
| Guiyang | /ko⁵⁵/ | |
| Kunming | /ko⁴⁴/ | |
| Nanjing | /ko³¹/ | |
| Hefei | /kʊ²¹/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /kɤ¹¹/ |
| Pingyao | /kɔ¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /kɤ³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /ku⁵³/ |
| Suzhou | /kəu⁵⁵/ | |
| Hangzhou | /ko³³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /ku³³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /ko³¹/ |
| Tunxi | /ko¹¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /ko³³/ |
| Xiangtan | /ko³³/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /ko⁴²/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /ko⁴⁴/ |
| Taoyuan | /ko²⁴/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /kɔ⁵³/ |
| Nanning | /kɔ⁵⁵/ | |
| Hong Kong | /kɔ⁵⁵/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) |
/ko⁵⁵/ /kua⁵⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /ko⁴⁴/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /kɔ⁵⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) |
/ko³³/ /kua³³/ |
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| Haikou (Min Nan) |
/ko²³/ /kua²³/ |
| Rime | |
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| Character | 歌 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 歌 (94) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 古俄切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/kɑ/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/kɑ/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/kɑ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ka/ |
| Li Rong |
/kɑ/ |
| Wang Li |
/kɑ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/kɑ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
gē |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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| Character | 歌 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
gē |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ ka › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[k]ˤaj/ |
| English | sing, song |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 歌 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 7438 |
| Phonetic component |
可 |
| Rime group |
歌 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
歌 |
| Old Chinese |
/*kaːl/ |
Definitions
歌
Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
歌
Readings
Compounds
Terms derived from 歌
| Kanji in this term |
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| 歌 |
|
うた Grade: 2 |
| kun'yomi |
Pronunciation
Alternative forms
Noun
References
- ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
- ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
- ↑ 1974, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Second Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō
Korean
Hanja
歌 • (ga) (hangeul 가, McCune-Reischauer ka, Yale ka)
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