• 歌うた — song
• 歌うたう — to sing
• 歌手かしゅ — singer
• 歌詞かし — lyrics
• 歌声うたごえ — singing voice
• 国歌こっか — national anthem

The character 歌 combines “to sing or recite” with the radical 欠, which originally meant “open mouth” or “yawn.” Together they express the act of singing or vocalizing — and later came to mean “song” or “poetry.”

歌うたを歌うたうのが好すきです。
I like singing songs.

彼かれは 有名ゆうめいな歌手かしゅです。
He is a famous singer.

🎧 Practice the native Japanese pronunciation of 歌.