gāo

the high land along a river

The advancement of white vapor or mist, exemplified as that from a vast swampland, and also used for unrelated meanings by sound loan. Scholars think this differentiated from , as 「」「」「」 were almost indistinguishable before the Western Han dynasty (206 BCE - 9 CE.)

Components
白 meaning component

  Meaning component

bái

  

white

Ostensibly signifying the meaning of "white" vapor, but probably a remnant of the in /𥇡/𬐇.

夲 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

tāo

  

advance quickly

Traditionally noted in different sources as providing both meaning and sound, but actually differentiated from in stages similar to 𠦍, as seen in variants like .

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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