gào
tell
Pictograph of a tongue extending from an open mouth. Visually similar to 舌 (tongue).
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
gào
tell, announce, inform; accuse; to say; to tell; to announce; to report; to denounce; to file a lawsuit; to sue
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Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.95