哥
gē HSK1

elder brother

哥 gē
elder brother noun
Elder brother; a male relative of the same generation who is older than oneself

你听起来像我哥。

nǐ tīng qi​lai xiàng wǒ gē.

You sound like my brother.

brother noun
A respectful way to address a man of about one's own age
Colombia noun
(bound form) Abbreviation for 哥伦比亚 gē​lún​bǐ​yà
boys
Used in the plural to refer to a group of young men or brothers
[archaic sentence-final]
(archaic) Used at the end of a sentence in Song or Yuan dynasty opera to express emotion, similar to 啊 a
song
(archaic) An ancient written form of 歌 gē meaning song
surname
A Chinese surname

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Abbreviation of

Frequency
Character
Written text
804th most common 225.4 per million
Movie subtitles
374th most common 402.3 per million appears in 59% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
53.6 per million appears in 15% of films
Written text
168.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+54E5

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)