áo

soar

Components

Sound component
gāo the high land along a river
Meaning component
feather

wings

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangŋuː

說文解字

翱翔也。从羽皐聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica