民歌
mín gē · HSK 6
song
🎵🏡 mín gē = people + song — the people's song
民 means people or folk, 歌 means song. Together they form folk song — music that belongs to the common people, passed down through generations of singing.
歌 — 哥 (phonetic 'gē') + 欠 (open mouth)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The right side 欠 depicts a person with an open mouth, supplying the meaning of singing or vocalizing. The left side 哥 gives the sound 'gē'. Together they form the verb and noun for 'song' or 'to sing'.