皋 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

gāo

the high land along a river

Components

白 Unknown component

bái

white

夲 Sound component

tāo

advance quickly

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

gāo

the high land along a river; bank; marsh

gāo

high riverbank; variant of 皋[gāo]

Most common words with 皋

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	皋	bank
	如皋	Rugao county level city in Nantong 南通[Nántōng], Jiangsu
	如皋市	Rugao county level city in Nantong 南通[Nántōng], Jiangsu
	皋兰县	Gaolan county in Lanzhou 蘭州\|兰州[Lánzhōu], Gansu
	皋兰	Gaolan county in Lanzhou 蘭州\|兰州[Lánzhōu], 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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