gāo

drum

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartkaw[k]ˤu big drum

說文解字

《說文》:“鼛,大鼓也。从鼓,咎聲。《詩》曰:‘鼛鼓不勝。’”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica