kǎo

bake

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangqʰaːwɢ
qʰoːwɢ
qʰoːɡ

說文解字

火熱也。从火高聲。《詩》曰:“多將熇熇。”

Sources

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