篙

篙	U+7BD9, 篙 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7BD9

← 篘
[U+7BD8]

CJK Unified Ideographs

篚 →
[U+7BDA]

Translingual

Han character

篙 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 竹卜口月 (HYRB), four-corner 8822₇, composition ⿱𥫗高)

Derived characters

㰏𢨠

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 893, character 44
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26313
Dae Jaweon: page 1321, character 4
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3004, character 2
Unihan data for U+7BD9

Chinese

trad.		篙
simp. ^#		篙
alternative forms		㰏

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 篙
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (高) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
高	*kaːw
膏	kaːw, kaːws
篙	*kaːw
稿	*kaːwʔ
稾	kaːwʔ, kʰaːws
槁	kaːwʔ, kʰaːwʔ
縞	kaːwʔ, kaːws
暠	*kaːwʔ
槀	*kaːwʔ
藁	*kaːwʔ
燺	*kʰaːwʔ
薧	kʰaːwʔ, kʰaːws, *qʰaːw
犒	*kʰaːws
蒿	*qʰaːw
藃	qʰaːws, qʰraːw, *qʰraw
豪	*ɡaːw
毫	*ɡaːw
壕	*ɡaːw
濠	*ɡaːw
鎬	*ɡaːwʔ
滈	ɡaːwʔ, qʰraːwɢ
鄗	ɡaːwʔ, kʰraːw, *qʰaːwɢ
鰝	ɡaːwʔ, qʰaːwɢ
薃	*ɡaːwʔ
搞	*kruːʔ
敲	kʰraːw, kʰraːws
髇	*qʰraːw
嗃	qʰraːw, qʰraːws, *qʰaːwɢ
巐	*kʰl'awʔ
歊	qʰraw, qʰoːwɢ
謞	qʰaːwɢ, qʰraːwɢ
熇	qʰaːwɢ, qʰoːwɢ, *qʰoːɡ
碻	*kʰraːwɢ
塙	*kʰraːwɢ
毃	*kʰraːwɢ
翯	qʰraːwɢ, ɡraːwɢ, *ɡoːwɢ
瀥	*qʰraːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kaːw): semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 高 (OC *kaːw).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): gāo (gao¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄠ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gou¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kô
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ko / ko͘
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹kau

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: gāo
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄠ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: gao
  - Wade–Giles: kao¹
  - Yale: gāu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gau
  - Palladius: гао (gao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: gou¹
  - Yale: gōu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gou¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: gou¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kou̯⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kô
  - Hakka Romanization System: go^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: go¹
  - Sinological IPA: /ko²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ko
  - Tâi-lô: ko
  - Phofsit Daibuun: koy
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kɤ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ko³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /ko⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ko͘
  - Tâi-lô: koo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kof
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kɔ³³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹kau
  - MiniDict: kau^平
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹kau
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /kɔ⁵³/

Middle Chinese: kaw

Rime
Character	篙
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古勞切
Baxter	kaw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/kɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/kɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kaw/
Li Rong	/kɑu/
Wang Li	/kɑu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gou¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*kaːw/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	篙
Reading #	1/1
No.	3728
Phonetic component	高
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	髙
Old Chinese	/*kaːw/

Definitions

篙

bamboo pole used for punting boats
a surname

Compounds

撐篙 / 撑篙 (chēnggāo)
杉篙
燈篙 / 灯篙
篙人
篙子
篙工
篙師 / 篙师
篙頭 / 篙头
船篙 (chuángāo)
豎燈篙 / 竖灯篙

Japanese

Kanji

篙

(Hyōgai kanji)

pole used for punting boats

Readings

Kan-on: こう (kō)
Kun: さお (sao, 篙)

Korean

Hanja

篙 • (go) (hangeul 고, revised go, McCune–Reischauer ko, Yale ko)

a punting pole
(boat) oar