敲
qiāo HSK5

strike

Phonosemantic compound. 攴 represents the meaning and 高 represents the sound.

Components

高
高 Sound component
gāo high
攴
攴 Meaning component
pū tap

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangkʰraːw
kʰraːws
Unicodekau

說文解字

《說文》:“敲,橫擿也。从攴,高聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica