皋
gāo

the high land along a river

Components

白
白 Meaning component
bái, bai white
夲
夲 SoundMeaning component
tāo, běn advance quickly

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Three Kingdoms (Wu) 222-280 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 3 verified)

翱嗥槔

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartkaw[k]ˤu announce

說文解字

《說文》：“皋，气皋白之進也。从夲，从白。《禮》祝曰皋，登謌曰奏，故皋奏皆从夲。《周禮》曰：‘詔來鼓皋舞。’皋，告之也。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫Zi.tools
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)