Chinese Character Wiki
告

gào

tell

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

Components
◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts a tongue extending from an open mouth.

口 iconic component

口  Iconic component

kǒu

  

mouth

Evolution

告 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
告 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
告 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

告  

gào

tell, announce, inform; accuse; to say; to tell; to announce; to report; to denounce; to file a lawsuit; to sue

Most common words with 告
Freq.
Word
Meaning

告诉

to tell

报告

to inform

广告

to advertise

公告

post

警告

to warn

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

诰

Sound component in 14 characters (3 verified)

造 靠 酷 浩 皓 窖 诰 鵠 鹄 梏 鋯 锆 郜 牿

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤuk-s

kawH

gào

announce, inform

*kˤuk

kowk

gào

announce, inform


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 99.2632% of movies

106th most common character in movies

310th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+544A

Shuowen

“告，牛觸人，角箸橫木，所以告人也。从口，从牛。《易》曰：‘僮牛之告。’”


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