歌

See also: 欨
歌 U+6B4C, 歌
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B4C
← 歋
[U+6B4B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 歍 →
[U+6B4D]

Translingual
Stroke order

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)

Derived characters
  • 𫉸

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
simp. and trad.
 歌

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 歌
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (可) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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”).

Alternative explanation: Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 可 (“sound of singing”) + 可 (“sound of singing”) + 欠 (“open mouth”).

Pronunciation
Note:
  • koa - vernacular;
  • ko/ko͘ - literary.
Note:
  • gua1 - vernacular;
  • go1 - literary.
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 歌
Mandarin Beijing /kɤ⁵⁵/
Harbin /kɤ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /kɤ²¹/
Jinan /kə²¹³/
Qingdao /kə²¹³/ 新
/kuə²¹³/ 老
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/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ko²³/
/kua²³/
Rime
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)
Character 歌
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 gē
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ka ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ˁaj/
English sing, song

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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

  1. to sing; to chant
  2. song; tune (Classifier: 首; 隻／只 c; 條／条 h mn; 塊／块 mn; 闋／阕)
    歌曲  ―  gēqǔ  ―  song
  3. to praise

Compounds
Derived terms from 歌

Japanese

Kanji
歌

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds
Kanji in this term
歌
うた
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *Uta.

Noun

歌 (hiragana うた, rōmaji uta)

  1. (music) a song
    氷 (こおり)と炎 (ほのお)の歌 (うた)
    Kōri to Honō no Uta
    A Song of Ice and Fire
  2. (poetry) poetry

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  3. 1974, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Second Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō

Korean

Hanja

歌 (eumhun 노래 가 (norae ga))

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Compounds

Kunigami

Kanji

歌

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɸutˀaː/

Noun

歌 (hiragana ふたﾟー, romaji futā)

  1. song

Okinawan

Kanji

歌

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʔuta/

Noun

歌 (hiragana うた, romaji uta)

  1. song

Vietnamese

Han character

歌 (ca)

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Yaeyama

Kanji

歌

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʔuta/

Noun

歌 (hiragana うた, romaji uta)

  1. song

Yonaguni

Kanji

歌

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /uta/

Noun

歌 (hiragana うた, romaji uta)

  1. song
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