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哥 — stroke order

gē
ㄍㄜ
Meaning
elder brother
Strokes
10
Radical
口
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Watch how to write 哥 (gē) stroke by stroke. 哥 has 10 strokes and means “elder brother”. It appears in common words such as 哥哥 (older brother) and 帥哥 (handsome guy). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.

Common words with 哥

The most common words that use 哥 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.

哥哥gēgeolder brother帥哥shuàigēhandsome guy大哥dàgēeldest brother哥們gēmenBrothers!表哥biǎogēolder male cousin via female line哥們兒gēmenrerhua variant of 哥們|哥们, Brothers!

How 哥 is written

Radical
口
Formation
Ideographic — One person talking 可 over another 可.

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