gǎo

white raw silk

Components
糹 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk

silk

高 sound component

  Sound component

gāo

  

high

Evolution

縞 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
縞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
縞 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
縞 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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gǎo

white raw silk; plain white silk

Most common words with 縞
Freq.
Word
Meaning

plain white silk

缟素

white silk mourning dress

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5286th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+7E1E

Shuowen

“縞,鮮色也。从糸,高聲。”


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