hào, gǎo
stove
Phonosemantic compound. 钅 represents the meaning and 高 represents the sound. Simplified form of 鎬.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 镐
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
bright | ||
Lee Chang-ho (1975-), South Korean Go player | ||
pickaxe | ||
pickaxe | ||
Haojing (in modern Shaanxi, northwest of Chang'an county), capital of Western Zhou from c. 1050 BC |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4222nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+9550 |
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