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gē — older brother

10 strokes · radical 口 · HSK 1

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Where it comes from

Chinese has no single word for "brother". 哥 is specifically an older one; a younger one is 弟. Age is built into the vocabulary, not added as an adjective.

Words it turns up in

哥哥

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