gǎo

white raw silk

Components

Meaning component
silk

silk

Sound component
gāo high

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangkaːwʔ
kaːws
Unicodegɑ̀u
gɑ̌u

說文解字

鮮色也。从糸高聲。

Sources

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

gǎo white raw silk Simplified

Components

Meaning component
silk

silk

Sound component
gāo high

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode