小马哥

小馬哥

Xiǎo Mǎ gē

proper noun

Meanings

1 Mark Gor, the gangster Chow Yun-fat plays in the film A Better Tomorrow (1986)
2 nickname for a man surnamed Ma

马化腾 Mǎ Huàténg Pony Ma · entrepreneur, born 1971

Characters

Ma, from Mark, or the surname Ma

Examples

HSK 5

我们经理姓马，年纪又轻，大家都叫他小马哥。

Wǒmen jīnglǐ xìng Mǎ, niánjì yòu qīng, dàjiā dōu jiào tā Xiǎo Mǎ gē.

Our manager is surnamed Ma and still young, so everyone calls him Xiao Ma Ge.

HSK 7-9

周润发演的小马哥成为了香港电影的经典形象。

Zhōu Rùnfā yǎn de Xiǎo Mǎ gē chéngwéi le Xiānggǎng diànyǐng de jīngdiǎn xíngxiàng.

Chow Yun-fat's Mark Gor became a classic image of Hong Kong cinema.

Tips

culture

In the film he wears a long dark coat and sunglasses and chews a matchstick, a look young men all over Hong Kong copied. His name is Mark, and Mark Gor is Cantonese for "Brother Mark".

usage

As a nickname it goes to men surnamed 马: Tencent's founder 马化腾 and 马英九, who led Taiwan from 2008 to 2016, have both been called it.

Stroke Order

小 xiǎo

马 mǎ

哥 gē