kào

entertain victorious soldiers

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
牛 meaning component

  Meaning component

niú

  

cow

高 sound component

  Sound component

gāo

  

high

Definitions

 

kào

entertain victorious soldiers; to reward or comfort with presents of food, drink etc

Most common words with 犒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

犒劳

to feast (sb)

犒赏

reward

to reward or comfort with presents of food, drink etc

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[kʰ]ˤaw-s

khawH

kào

remunerate (soldiers) with food


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4699th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+7292


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