歌
gē HSK1

song

歌 gē
variant 謌
song noun
song; can refer to any melody or piece of music that is sung, or a style of poem that can be set to music

你知道这是什么歌吗？

nǐ zhī​dao zhè shì shén​me gē ma?

Do you know what song this is?

我们应该自己写歌。

wǒ​men yīng​gāi zì​jǐ xiě gē.

We should write our own songs.

to sing nounverb
(bound form) to sing; to vocalize a melody as in 歌唱 gē​chàng or 唱歌 chàng​gē
to praise
(bound form) to praise or celebrate in speech or writing, such as in 歌颂 gē​sòng or 歌功颂德 gē​gōng​sòng​dé
surname Ge
a Chinese surname

Cross-References

Classifier

Has old variant

Has erhua variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,040th most common 149.6 per million
Movie subtitles
491st most common 296.1 per million appears in 42% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
188.1 per million appears in 24% of films
Written text
146.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+6B4C

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