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HSK
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *哥* | 哥* | *哥
elder brother
HSK 1
older brother / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
handsome guy / lady-killer / handsome (form of address)
HSK 4
eldest brother / big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself) / gang leader; boss
HSK 4
Brothers! / brethren / dude (colloquial) / brother (diminutive form of address between males)
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–1995), wartime predecessor of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina 波斯尼亞和黑塞哥維那|波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那
Togo
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *墨* | 墨* | *墨
surname Mo / abbr. for 墨西哥, Mexico
the Goldbach conjecture in number theory
Viagra (male impotence drug)
gothic
Morocco
Godzilla
burrito / taco
Gulf of Mexico
(bird species of China) crested myna (Acridotheres cristatellus)
Colombia (country in South America) / Columbia (name of various entities, mostly in the USA)
little boy who is older than another young child (e.g. his playmate) / (neologism c. 2017) (slang) amiable form of address for a young man of about one's own age or a little older
Angkor Wat, temple complex in Cambodia
Mexico City, capital of Mexico
Cristóbal Colón or Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) / Columbus, capital of Ohio
Godzilla (Tw)
Franco (name) / Generalissimo Francisco Franco Bahamonde (1892-1975), Spanish dictator and head of state 1939-1975
Columbia University
pachinko (loanword) (Tw)
British Columbia, Pacific province of Canada
(coll.) soldier boy
Vancouver (city in Canada)
Pythagoras
Stockholm, capital of Sweden
(coll.) top-ranked male; leading male; top male personality (in a particular field, esp. in entertainment or sports)
Monaco
(Protestantism) Corinth, city in Greece
male taxi driver / cabbie (slang)
Mexico
Goth (e.g. Ostrogoth or Visigoth)
Costa Rica
Second Epistle of St Paul to the Corinthians
Godzilla (Japanese ゴジラ Gojira) / see also 哥斯拉
pug (breed of dog)
big brother
cell phone (bulky, early-model one); brick phone / mob boss
Angola
(coll.) very close male friends
Copenhagen or København, capital of Denmark
pug (breed of dog)
Santiago, capital of Chile / San Diego, California
Jericho (Biblical city)
British Columbia, Pacific province of Canada
pampered son of a wealthy family
pug (breed of dog)
brothers / boys
goblin (loanword)
highest-ranking donor of a live streamer
Chicago, USA
(bird species of China) common hill myna (Gracula religiosa)
District of Columbia, USA
Novgorod, city in Russia
Mikolaj Kopernik or Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer, mathematician and polymath
New Mexico, US state
Glasgow, Scotland
Kota Bharu, city in Malaysia on border with Thailand, capital of Kelantan sultanate
Segovia (city in Spain)
Cossack (people)
Mexican
second brother
(loanword) nigger
British Columbia, Pacific province of Canada
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
Bernard Montgomery (Montie) (1887–1976), Second World War British field marshal / Montgomery or Montgomerie (surname)
(bird species of China) golden-crested myna (Ampeliceps coronatus)
Kelantan sultanate of Malaysia, near Thai border, capital Kota Baharu 哥打巴魯|哥打巴鲁
(Tw) Costa Rica
(loanword) chloroform; trichloromethane CHCl3
Goliath
Gothenburg (city in Sweden)
Bogota, capital of Colombia
(coll.) parrot
Kara, city in northern Togo 多哥 / Cara, Karla etc (name)
Königsberg, Baltic port city, capital of East Prussia (until WWII)
(slang) Mr. Know-it-all
(familiar) elder brother
see 八哥
Columbia University (abbr.)
the Windy City, nickname for Chicago 芝加哥, Wellington, New Zealand 惠靈頓|惠灵顿 and Hsinchu, Taiwan 新竹
older male patrilineal cousin
(Tw) (loanword) flamenco
rich guy
(slang) honey badger (Mellivora capensis)
(bird species of China) Javan myna (Acridotheres javanicus)
older male cousin via female line
Trinidad and Tobago (Tw)
Trinidad and Tobago
First epistle of St Paul to the Corinthians
Scott (name)
(bird species of China) great myna (Acridotheres grandis)
(Tw) San Diego, California / Santiago, capital of Chile
jalapeño

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