gāo

the high land along a river

Components
白 unknown component

  Unknown component

bái

  

white

夲 sound component

  Sound component

tāo

  

advance quickly

Evolution

皋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
皋 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
皋 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

gāo

the high land along a river; bank; marsh

() 

gāo

high riverbank; variant of [gāo]

Most common words with 皋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

bank

如皋

Rugao county level city in Nantong 南通[Nán​tōng], Jiangsu

如皋市

Rugao county level city in Nantong 南通[Nán​tōng], Jiangsu

皋兰县

Gaolan county in Lanzhou 蘭州|兰州[Lán​zhōu], Gansu

皋兰

Gaolan county in Lanzhou 蘭州|兰州[Lán​zhōu], Gansu

Component uses

Sound component in 3 characters (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ˤu

kaw

gāo

announce


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3983rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+768B

Shuowen

“皋,气皋白之進也。从夲,从白。《禮》祝曰皋,登謌曰奏,故皋奏皆从夲。《周禮》曰:‘詔來鼓皋舞。’皋,告之也。”


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