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歌曲

gēqǔ

song

HSK 5 · Topic “Arts and stage”
A singer with a music note
Memory picture

Characters in this word

歌 gē

Strokes
14
Radical
欠 — to lack, to owe
Made of
哥 elder brother 欠 to lack, to owe
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

曲 qǔ

Strokes
6
Radical
曰 — to speak
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
More about the character 曲

Example phrases

  • 这首歌曲好听。 Zhè shǒu gēqǔ hǎotīng. This song is pleasant to hear.
  • 我喜欢歌曲。 Wǒ xǐhuan gēqǔ. I like songs.
  • 歌曲很短。 Gēqǔ hěn duǎn. The song is very short.

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