契哥

Chinese

		contract	elder brother
trad. (契哥)		契	哥
simp. #(契哥)		契	哥

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qìgē

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˋ ㄍㄜ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kai³ go¹
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): khie-kô

  (Meixian, Guangdong): kê⁴ go¹

• Eastern Min (BUC): kié-gŏ̤

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qìgē
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˋ ㄍㄜ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cìge
    • Wade–Giles: chʻi⁴-ko¹
    • Yale: chì-gē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chihge
    • Palladius: цигэ (cigɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi⁵¹ kɤ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: kai³ go¹
    • Yale: kai gō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kai³ go¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: kei³ go¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɐi̯³³ kɔː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khie-kô
    • Hakka Romanization System: kie go^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: kie⁴ go¹
    • Sinological IPA: /kʰi̯e⁵⁵ ko²⁴/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: kê⁴ go¹
    • Sinological IPA: /kʰe⁵³ ko⁴⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: kié-gŏ̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰie²¹³⁻⁵⁵ ^(k-)o⁵⁵/

Noun

契哥

1. (literary) blood brother; sworn (elder) brother
2. (Cantonese) male bestie (of a girl)
3. (Hakka) male lover; extramarital lover of a woman
4. (Eastern Min, derogatory) bugger; sodomite

Synonyms

• (male lover):

Dialectal synonyms of 情夫 (“extramarital male lover of a married woman”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		情夫, 姘夫
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	拐漢子
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	孤老
	Wanrong	後男人
	Xuzhou	拐男人
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	賊漢子, 野漢子
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	孤老, 孤老搭子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	契家佬
	Hong Kong	情夫, 契家佬
	Dongguan	契家佬
Gan	Nanchang	野老公
	Lichuan	野老公
	Pingxiang	野老公
Hakka	Meixian	契哥, 老緣
Jin	Xinzhou	野漢, 野漢子
Southern Min	Xiamen	契兄
	Quanzhou	契兄
	Zhangzhou	契兄
	Taipei	契兄
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	契兄
	Kaohsiung	契兄, 猴
	Yilan	契兄, 猴
	Changhua (Lukang)	契兄
	Taichung	契兄
	Tainan	契兄, 猴
	Hsinchu	契兄
	Kinmen	契兄, 猴
	Penghu (Magong)	契兄
	Leizhou	契兄
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	老契公
Wu	Shanghai	漢郎頭
	Danyang	孤老, 孤老野漢
	Ningbo	野老公
Xiang	Changsha	野老倌, 野老公
	Loudi	野男人

See also

• 契弟 (qìdì)

Proper noun

契哥

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, neologism) Russia

Usage notes

Used by some online users to mock Russia's close ties with China. Russia's larger size compared to China also adds to the term's original meaning of 哥, the "elder brother".

Coordinate terms

• 契弟 (kai³ dai⁶)