handcuffs

Components

Meaning component
tree

wood

Sound component
gào tell

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangkruːɡ
kuːɡ
Unicodegok

說文解字

手械也。从木告聲。

Sources

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