~歌
~か · ~ka · JLPT N2 · noun
song of ~
🎵 歌 = 哥 + 欠 (open mouth): a mouth opened to sing, as in 国歌 kokka
欠 is a person with a wide-open mouth, and 哥 gives the sound. As a suffix, ~歌 (ka) marks a kind of song: 国歌 kokka is the national anthem, 校歌 kōka is a school song.
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'.