哥

哥 (radical 30, 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一口弓口 (MRNR), four-corner 1062₁, composition ⿱⿹丅口可(GHTV) or ⿱可可(JK))

• 歌

• KangXi: page 190, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3641
• Dae Jaweon: page 409, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 624, character 19
• Unihan data for U+54E5

Stacked form of 可 (OC *kʰaːlʔ).

“elder brother”

This sense is attested in Medieval Chinese, and became popular during the Tang dynasty, gradually displacing 兄 (MC hˠwiæŋ).

It is a clipping of 阿哥 (MC ʔɑ kɑ), a borrowing from Xianbei *aqa (“elder brother”) (Mei, 2015). Compare Proto-Mongolic *aka, whence also Mongolian ᠠᠬ᠎ᠠ (aq-a, “elder brother”). Related to 阿干 (MC ʔɑ kɑn), which is the definite form of the same Xianbei word (Mei, 2015).

哥

1. older brother; elder brother
2. older male relative of the same generation
3. (polite) term of address for a male person of the same age
4. ^† Original form of 歌 (gē, “song”).

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. kanji used to transliterate borrowings from foreign languages
2. sing, singing
3. elder brother

• Go-on: か (ka)
• Kan-on: か (ka)
• Tō-on: こ (ko)
• Kun: うた (uta, 哥); うたう (utau, 哥う)^{←うたふ (utafu, historical)}

哥 • (ga) (hangeul 가, revised ga, McCune–Reischauer ka)

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哥 (ca, kha)

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