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歌 (gē): meaning and stroke order

歌 (gē) means song (CL:首,支), (bound form) to sing, variant of 歌.

歌

Simplified
歌
Traditional
歌, 謌
Pinyin
gē

Stroke order of 歌

歌

  • gē song (CL:首[shou3],支[zhi1]); (bound form) to sing
  • gē variant of 歌[ge1]
  • 14 strokes
  • Traditional form: 謌

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 歌

  1. gē
    • song (CL:首[shou3],支[zhi1])
    • (bound form) to sing
  2. gē Traditional 謌
    • variant of 歌[ge1]

Radical and structure

歌
Radical 欠 (Kangxi radical 76) · 14 strokes · 哥 on the left, 欠 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 歌

歌 in our stories

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  • 从那以后，每个月她们都会一起喝一次咖啡：英格丽教她挪威的老歌，她教英格丽包饺子。

    cóng nà yǐhòu měi gè yuè tāmen dōu huì yìqǐ hē yí cì kāfēi Yīnggélì jiāo tā Nuówēi de lǎo gē tā jiāo Yīnggélì bāo jiǎozi

    After that they met for coffee every month: Ingrid taught her old Norwegian songs, and she taught Ingrid to make dumplings.

    From the story Two homes HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 他一遍又一遍地跟她讲自己的女儿：女儿小时候怕打雷，一打雷就钻进他的被子里，他就唱一首自己编的歌哄她睡觉。

    tā yí biàn yòu yí biàn de gēn tā jiǎng zìjǐ de nǚ'ér nǚ'ér xiǎoshíhou pà dǎléi yì dǎléi jiù zuān jìn tā de bèizi lǐ tā jiù chàng yì shǒu zìjǐ biān de gē hǒng tā shuìjiào

    Again and again he told her about his daughter: as a little girl she was afraid of thunder, and whenever it thundered she crawled under his quilt, and he would sing a song he had made up to lull her to sleep.

    From the story The song in the thunderstorm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 歌

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).