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-<WL>哥 [gē] (哥哥 gēge) older brother
+<WL>哥 [gē] (哥哥 gēge) older/elder brother@@; (HDZ:) 声; 歌: 歌唱; (亲属) 对同父母或同族同辈而年龄比自己大的男子的称呼 (哥哥, 大哥); (唐) 父; (语气词) 啊; (宋) 哥窑
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-From 可 kě phonetic, doubled.
+The character 哥(􀴸) gē (formerly meaning ‘sound/tune’) doubles the component 可(􀴵) kě (phonosemantic); see 歌 gē ‘sing/song’, said in Shuōwén to be an augmented writing of 哥 gē (glossed 声 ‘sound (tune)’); 哥 was borrowed for the homophone 哥 (as in 哥哥 gēge ‘brother’, 大哥 dàgē ‘big brother’), and 欠 was added to form 歌 specifying the old meaning of 哥 ‘sing/song’.
+	Note that 可 kě seems to be phonetic (phonosemantic) in 哥, though Shuōwén does not say so (they are in the same OC rhyme class, and differ only in aspiration of the initial); 可 seems to be phonosemantic (not simply phonetic) since 可 kě combines 口 kǒu ‘mouth’ and 丂 qiǎo ‘air/breath/sigh/exclamation’ (cf. ‘air/sing/song’); in Shuōwén 可(􀴵) kě is glossed for the borrowed usage 肯 kěn ‘can’ (as in 可以), and it's component 丂(􀴱􀴐巧) kǎo/qiǎo ‘(obstructed) air/breath/sigh (would rather flow free)’ is there phonosemantic (丂 kǎo → 可 kě ⇒ 哥 gē ⇛ 歌 gē).
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-#y go\</WL>
+#y go\
+</WL>